This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its audiences. Besides combining the elements of the risqué 'blue' movies of the era with the popularity of movies about fires, it also attempted to use the combination to get extra mileage out of it.
The movie's title summarizes the setup, and most of the footage shows firefighters using ladders to rescue stage girls, clad in portions of their costumes, from an upper level. Although it all seems pretty tame by today's standards, it no doubt provided its male viewers with some brief moments of excitement as the various women hurried down the ladders with their costumes in disarray.
In itself, it would now have little power either to excite or to provoke indignation. The main interest that it holds now is as an example of the many movies of its time that willingly used this kind of material, and that obviously found an audience.
The movie's title summarizes the setup, and most of the footage shows firefighters using ladders to rescue stage girls, clad in portions of their costumes, from an upper level. Although it all seems pretty tame by today's standards, it no doubt provided its male viewers with some brief moments of excitement as the various women hurried down the ladders with their costumes in disarray.
In itself, it would now have little power either to excite or to provoke indignation. The main interest that it holds now is as an example of the many movies of its time that willingly used this kind of material, and that obviously found an audience.
