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Released May 19, 1939
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
16.2 min. (Short Subject)

The Stooges are singing waiters who find out their girlfriends' father will be jailed if their debts are not paid off. This makes the boys become prospectors. What they find is buried money stolen by their boss. Their boss discovers his stolen loot and the chase is on.

Costar Suzanne Kaaren was a guest of the 1991 Three Stooges Convention, and costar Lola Jensen was greeted at the 1992 Convention, both events in Philadelphia. See The Three Stooges Journal # 63 (Fall 1992) & # 59 (Fall 1991).

It's often said that Curly ad libbed the closing dialogue gag, "Yes, we have no bonanza." That is not true, completely. That specific line indeed appears in the final draft continuity script dated Nov. 10, 1938 (filming occurred Nov. 28 - Dec. 1). The film's working title from the beginning was YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZAS (plural), changed to BONANZA (singular) for the final title, and essentially "announcing" that final verbal gag provided by screenwriters Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman. What apparently was ad libbed was Curly's 2nd declaration of "Bonanza!"

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Suzanne Kaaren
Saloon singer

Jean Carmen
Saloon singer

Lola Jensen
Saloon singer

Victor Travers
Man sitting outside saloon

Stanley Mack
Saloon patron

Chuck Callahan
Saloon patron

Dick Curtis
Jack Maxey


Jules White
Producer

Del Lord
Director

Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay

Searle Kramer
Story and Screenplay

Lucien Ballard
Photography

Charles Nelson
Film Editor



















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