Gold Raiders is a comedy Western film, directed by Edward Bernds with a script by B-movie writer William Lively and veteran comedy writer Elwood Ullman. The film was an attempt by independent producer Bernard Glasser to inaugurate a new western series starring George O'Brien, the lead in F. W. Murnau's masterpiece Sunrise (1927). Adding novelty value to the proceedings are the Three Stooges, who consisted at that time of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, a...
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Gold Raiders is a comedy Western film, directed by Edward Bernds with a script by B-movie writer William Lively and veteran comedy writer Elwood Ullman. The film was an attempt by independent producer Bernard Glasser to inaugurate a new western series starring George O'Brien, the lead in F. W. Murnau's masterpiece Sunrise (1927). Adding novelty value to the proceedings are the Three Stooges, who consisted at that time of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe's brother Shemp Howard. O'Brien and the Stooges receive roughly equal screen time, so this could also be considered the first "Three Stooges movie," although the Stooges had appeared in earlier films as supporting players. It was also the second feature films with Shemp Howard as part of the Stooges since the act's first screen appearance, the 1930 film Soup to Nuts, which also featured the Stooges' original leader Ted Healy.
The 56-minute film was economically filmed in five days by director Edward Bernds, who also directed several of...
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