A Hit with a Miss

It's a laugh-loaded winner!

Duration: 16 min

Release date: 1945-12-13

IMDB

Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.

Comedy

A Hit with a Miss

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as Rameses - Prizefighter

as Professor Periwinkle (as Charles Rogers)

Robert B. Williams

Robert B. Williams

Marilyn Johnson

Marilyn Johnson

as Rameses' Fiancee

as Referee (uncredited)

as Ring Announcer (uncredited)

as Professor Periwinkle (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Fight Timekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Kilduff's Trainer in Ring (uncredited)

as Spectator (uncredited)

as Spectator (uncredited)

as Killer Kilduff (uncredited)

as Scarred Fighter (uncredited)

as Spectator with Toupee (uncredited)

as Spud McGurn (uncredited)

as Kid in Fight Crowd (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blackie Whiteford

Blackie Whiteford

as Fighter (uncredited)

as Ringside Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)

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