Whoops, I'm an Indian! (1936)
Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow.
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A Major Disappointment
A different way of telling a story
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
"Whoops, I'm an Indian!" is a relatively early Three Stooges cartoon. It is basically the usual. Moe and Larry are on board and Curly is also still there. Director is Del Lord and he made several of these Stooges short films. Runtime is the usual again too with slightly over 17 minutes. The trio once again gets in trouble while trying to cheat during gambling and their way of hiding this time is by dressing up as Indians. But sooner than later, love gets in the way in the most unpleasant way for Curly. Oh my, maybe it would have been better to stand up for what they did and avoid all the complications and chaos that ensues. But they would not be the Stooges if they did so right? Anyway, I personally have seen better Stooges than this one here. The comedy is not spot-on and it is really more loud and chaotic than truly entertaining. i give it a thumbs down.
*Spoiler/plot- Whoops, I'm an Indian, 1936. The Stooges prove how the West was funny with their crooked gambling scheme exposed by the townspeople so the boys disguise themselves as Indians to escape a posse.*Special Stars- The Three Stooges: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard. Bud Jamison, Elaine Waters, Beatrice Blynn *Theme- Crime doesn't pay, but is funny.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Columbia Pictures, film short, pre WW2,*Emotion- A rather slow film with the low-key unexciting acting of the supporting cast, but somewhat saved by The Stooge's energy. The comedy situations are too expected and staged so boring. It's not the best from The Stooges.
This is another Stooges short with a Western setting, which has some nice backwoods scenery but is otherwise routine. Here, the boys are swindlers run out of town by the customers of a saloon; they subsequently have to fend for themselves, where we get a good gag which has Curly trying to procure food by going underwater and shooting at the fish! Eventually, they reach a log-cabin the property of one of their 'victims' and whose wife has been abducted by Indians; coincidentally, The Stooges disguise themselves as Native Americans which, of course, incurs the trapper's wrath (and also gives the film its title!). At the finale, our heroes are back in town believing their Indian disguise will fool the locals but, on the run once again soon after, they unwittingly lock themselves up in jail!
"Whoops, I'm an Indian!" falls short of being an "A+" Three Stooges comedy, but it still has its funny moments. Directed by Del Lord, it is one of a handful of Stooge films that casts the boys as scoundrels who run afoul of the law (whereas a majority of the time, the boys portray good guys out to help others).Highlights from this short include the following (if you have not yet seen it, don't read any further). At the film's opening, Larry uses a concealed horseshoe magnet to the Stooges' advantage for their crooked roulette game, but they don't get away with it for too long. When Moe asks Curly what he did with all the money the Stooges won from their shady roulette game, Curly replies, "I threw it away so I could run faster." A bit later, when Moe spots Larry with a bundle of supplies, he asks Larry if he stole them. Larry answers, "What do you think I am, a crook? I just took it." During the fishing scene, Moe keeps catching fish that are not the requisite size for three men to eat ("What are you doin' out of bed? Go back and get your big brother....So you're the big brother, huh? Go fetch your old man!"). Also during this scene, Curly accidentally hooks himself and then gets clubbed by Moe when he suggests baiting the fish with chewing tobacco. And finally, the boys hop aboard a canoe and cross the lake with one paddle stroke."Whoops, I'm an Indian!" is not a big winner in the Three Stooges film library, but aside from the highlights mentioned above, this short benefits greatly from the appearance of Bud Jamison as a burly French-Canadian fur trapper named Pierre. Unshaven, with a thick accent and a hot temper, Pierre becomes a perfect foil for the Buckskin Stooges, who soon get themselves into more trouble with their Indian disguises and ultimately wind up in jail, where they belong.