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Fireman Save My Child (1954)
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2 May 1954 (USA)
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An intended film for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello that ened up with Hugh O'Brian (a performer who was often funny...
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two goofballs (Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett) join a 1910 firefighting company.
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(Complete credited cast)| Spike Jones | ... | Lt. 'Mac' McGinty | |
| Spike Jones and His City Slickers | ... | Firemen (as Spike Jones' City Slickers) | |
| Hugh O'Brian | ... | Smitty | |
| Buddy Hackett | ... | Smokey Hinkle | |
| Adele Jergens | ... | Harry's Wife | |
| Tom Brown | ... | Capt. Bill Peters | |
| Harry Cheshire | ... | Commissioner Spencer | |
| George Cleveland | ... | Chief Rorty | |
| Tristram Coffin | ... | Tucker | |
| John Cliff | ... | Crane | |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Mayor | |
| Henry Kulky | ... | Harry | |
| Madge Blake | ... | Mrs. Spencer - Fire Commissioner's Wife |
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79 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #16933, General Audience) |
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Originally slated to star Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (who shot some scenes and who can be distinguished in a few long shots), Costello's ill health forced the withdrawal of the duo from the picture. Universal replaced them with Buddy Hackett and Hugh O'Brian.
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A Hot Time in the Old Town
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Here's another of those 'lost' films that somehow fell through the cracks and don't even show up on Turner Classic Movies at three in the morning, when they tend to play obscure so-so pictures for a cult audience that either sets the tape machine or sits up all night long, staring at the tube. Wish they would revive it, though, for it this is anything but subtle, it does contain several well mounted slapstick situations of the type that flourished in the early days of film, before sound came in. Originally, the film was to have starred Bud Abott and Lou Costello. When they dropped out, the studio inserted Hugh O'Brian, who shortly would incarnate the ultra-serous marshal Wyatt Earp on TV, and Buddy Hackett, just then emerging as a world-class funnyman. The decisive move was to rethink this as a (the?) vehicle for Spike Jones and His City Slickers, a madman band that offered more comedy than music. And, as earlier said about this film itself, they weren't subtle but they sure were funny. Another forgotten film waiting to be found.