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Released February 16, 1945
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Columbia
16.1 min. (Short Subject)

Good samaritan Woodcock rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking him. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that they are lovers. This doesn't sit well with his fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Woodcock's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.

A scene-for-scene remake of Charley Chase's TIME OUT FOR TROUBLE (Columbia 1938), with Dick Curtis reprising his original role. Appearances by Bud Jamison, Fred Toones and Victor Travers are actually stock footage from the Chase comedy.

It's believed that Shemp's makeup included a moustache so he would resemble Charley Chase enough to match up in stock footage longshots. But strangely, only a stunt double appears in any stock footage involving the Chase character, and no moustache is visible.

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Shemp Howard
Woodcock Q. Strinker

Dick Curtis
Louie Derringer

John Tyrrell
Bakery dept. clerk

George Gray
Bakery assistant

Grace Lenard
Mazie Frump

Al Thompson
Photographer

Judy Malcolm
Sales clerk

Joe Palma
William the chauffeur

Lew Davis
Man on street

Sam Lufkin
Man on street

Budd Fine
Policeman

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Room service waiter

Bud Jamison
Hotel detective

Victor Travers
Desk clerk

Johnny Kascier
Shemp's stunt double


Jules White
Director

Jules White
Producer

Victor Travers
Screenplay

Searle Kramer
Screenplay

Glen Gano
Director of Photography

Charles Hochberg
Film Editor

Charles Clague
Art Director



















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