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THE FIRE CHASER (1954)

Film Pick of the Day
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddigging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.

A remake of WAITING IN THE LURCH (1949), using stock footage.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 3.17/10 ]   6 votes
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Release Date Thursday, September 30, 1954
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 15.8 min.

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Births

Gustav Von Seyffertitz
(Actor)

b. 1862

Haimhausen, Bavaria, Germany

Arthur Swanstrom
(Songs)

b. 1888

Brooklyn, NY

William Keighley
(Director)

b. 1889

Philadelphia, PA

Harry Lee
(Actor)

b. 1892

Chicago, IL

Joseph Calleia
(Actor)

b. 1897

St. Julians, Malta

Hugh O'Connell
(Actor)

b. 1898

New York, NY

Marcel De la Brosse
(Actor)

b. 1902

Hericy, France

Theodore Newton
(Actor)

b. 1904

Lawrenceville, NJ

Cliff Shirpser
(Assistant Cameraman)

b. 1906

San Francisco, CA

Eddie Foster
(Actor)

b. 1906

Russia

Wally Maher
(Actor)

b. 1908

Cincinnati, OH

Anita Page
(Actress)

b. 1910

Flushing, NY

Wesley Addy
(Actor)

b. 1913

Omaha, NE

Jeanne Carmen
(Actress)

b. 1930

Paragould, AR



Deaths

Bill Dooley
(Actor)

d. 1938   (45)

Los Angeles, CA

Erville Alderson
(Actor)

d. 1957   (74)

Glendale, CA

Howard Jackson
(Music)

d. 1966   (66)

Florida

Sam Katzman
(Producer)

d. 1973   (72)

Los Angeles, CA

Melvyn Douglas
(Actor)

d. 1981   (80)

New York, NY

Chaz Chase
(Actor)

d. 1983   (82)

Los Angeles, CA

Walter Burke
(Actor)

d. 1984   (75)

Woodland Hills, CA

Bernard Schubert
(Screenplay)

d. 1988   (93)

Los Angeles, CA

June East
(Actress)

d. 1989   (77)

Marin, CA

John Pickard
(Actor)

d. 1993   (80)

Rutherford County, TN

Mary Dees
(Actress)

d. 2004   (93)

Lake Worth, FL



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