The Fire Chaser

Christine McIntyre is all set to marry Joe Besser, but every time he hears fire trucks go by, he has to go see the conflagration.

It's a remake of 1949's WAITING IN THE LURCH, Actually, it uses most of the earlier short, but with a few new sequences shot, mostly involving Besser telling his tale of woe to a pretty nurse who wants to marry a rich millionaire like Besser.

Besser came out of burlesque, and can be spotted around as a supporting comic for Abbott & Costello in their TV show and as 'Curly Joe' in the last four or five years of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts. He's ok in small doses. With Vernon Dent, Joe Palma, and Stanley Blystone.