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Phony Express(1943)
Status: Released
Date: 1943-11-18
59%
10 Votes
Time: 0h 17m
They're the Maddest Badmen in the West!
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Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
Languages: English.
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Movie: Phony Express
Top 9 Billed Cast
Curly Howard
Curly
Larry Fine
Larry
Moe Howard
Moe
Shirley Patterson
Lola (bargirl)
Bud Jamison
Red Morgan
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Sheriff Hogwaller (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford
Red's Henchman (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
The Banker (uncredited)
Rex Lease
Red's Henchman
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Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
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1943-11-18
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They're the Maddest Badmen in the West!
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