The Fire Chaser

Before Joe Besser became one of the Three Stooges following Shemp Howard's death, Besser made a string of short comedies for Columbia. Many of the solo films AND Stooges films were lazy remakes of previous Columbia shorts but of all of them, "The Fire Chaser" has to be the laziest and most pathetic remake of all!

Unlike other remakes, "The Fire Chaser" is actually a remake of an earlier Besser short, "Waiting in the Lurch"...which was actually a good film and possibly Besser's best. But it's so lazy that about 80-90% of the film IS "Waiting in the Lurch" and a few scenes were added here and there (mostly at the beginning and end) to make an 'all new movie'....baloney! All in all, there is no reason to see this short. In no way is it better than the previous one and is Columbia lazy filmmaking at its worst.