Cactus Makes Perfect

Cactus Makes Perfect is the 61st short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Cast

 * Moe Howard
 * Larry Fine
 * Curly Howard
 * Ernie Adams
 * Monte Collins
 * Vernon Dent
 * Eddie Laughton

Plot
The film opens with the Stooges' mother attempting to wake up her three boys without success. "Get out of bed, you lazy loafers!", she screams, to no avail. Finally, she yanks a rope the leads from the kitchen to the bed where the trio is sleeping soundly. This causes the bed to spin vertically and hilariously until they are expelled - violently.

Afterwards, she smacks them around in typical Stooge fashion (like mother, like sons). Curly receives a letter from the Inventors' Association, who state that his Gold Collar Button Retriever is "incomprehensible and utterly impractical." Naturally, Curly misinterprets this as a success, and the trio leave their mother's home to make their fortune. The mother offers them money, then belts them for accepting it ("You WOULD take it!") as they depart.

In transit, they are swindled into buying a map leading to a lost mine in the Old West. After actually finding a lost mine, the Stooges run afoul of two down-on-their-luck prospectors, who try to swindle the boys out of their dough.