A Hit with a Miss (1945)

A Hit with a Miss

1945

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Jules White

Cast

Arthur Housman as Fight Timekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charley Rogers as Professor Periwinkle (as Charles Rogers)

Heinie Conklin as Referee (uncredited)

Johnny Kascier as Kilduff's Trainer in Ring (uncredited)

Larry Fine as Professor Periwinkle (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lew Davis as Ring Announcer (uncredited)

Marilyn Johnson as Rameses' Fiancee

Robert B. Williams as Jonesy