Gold Raiders
Gold Raiders is a 1951 comedy Western film starring George OBrien and the Three Stooges Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard. The picture was OBriens last starring role and the only feature film released during Shemp Howards second tenure with the trio.
Gold Raiders was an attempt by independent producer Bernard Glasser to inaugurate a new western series starring George OBrien, the lead in F. W. Murnaus 1927 masterpiece Sunrise A Song of Two Humans and later a top star in Western and outdooradventure features. Adding novelty value to the proceedings are the Three Stooges, who consisted at that time of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe and Curlys brother Shemp Howard. OBrien and the Stooges receive roughly equal screen time, so this could also be considered the second fullfledged Three Stooges movie, although the Stooges had appeared in earlier films as supporting players their first starring feature was 1945s Rockin in the Rockies with Curly in place of Shemp. Gold Raiders marked the second and last feature film with Shemp Howard as part of the Stooges since the acts first screen appearance, the 1930 film Soup to Nuts, which also featured the Stooges original leader Ted Healy.The 56minute Gold Raiders was economically filmed in five days by director Edward Bernds, who also directed several of the Stooges shorts. Filmed on December 2630, 1950, Bernds later commented I should have never made that picture. It was an ultraquickie shot in five days at the unbelievable cost of 50,000 491,770 today, which, even then, was ridiculously low. Im afraid the picture shows it ........
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