Character People
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Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
15.8 min. (Short Subject)
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.
Joe Besser
Eric Loudermilk Potts
Christine McIntyre
Mae Knott
Vernon Dent
J. Peabody Knott
Rodney Bell
Wilber Slemons
Kenner G. Kemp
Church wedding guest
Judy Malcolm
Church wedding guest
Stanley Blystone
Fire Chief
Andre Pola
Dr. Emil Gseundheit
James Logan
Simmons
Al Thompson
Reception waiter
Johnny Kascier
Wedding guest
Charlie Phillips
Wedding guest
Barbara Bartay
Nurse
Charlie Phillips
Patient
Johnny Kascier
Joe's stunt double
Unidentified THE FIRE CHASER 1
Wedding guests
Unidentified THE FIRE CHASER 2
Hospital residents
Jules White
Director
Edward Bernds
Director, stock footage
Jules White
Producer
Hugh McCollum
Producer, stock footage
Elwood Ullman
Story
Jack White
Screenplay
Elwood Ullman
Screenplay, stock footage
Ray Cory
Director of Photography
Vincent Farrar
Photography, stock footage
Henry Batista
Film Editor
Henry DeMond
Film Editor, stock footage
Carl Anderson
Art Director
Charles Clague
Art Director, stock footage
Jerrold Bernstein
Assistant Director
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