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CUCKOORANCHO

Joe is a wanderer who is mistaken for an American millionaire by the impoverished owner of a hacienda.

Released on: Friday, March 25, 1938
Duration: 16.5 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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HOT STEEL

Steel worker buddies become mixed up in corporate politics and murder involving the theft of a revolutionary new steel alloy.

Released on: Friday, May 24, 1940
Duration: 64 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HEY, ROOKIE!

A disillusioned Broadway producer joins the Army, but is ordered to put on a camp show starring his former love and leading lady.

Released on: Thursday, April 6, 1944
Duration: 77 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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EADIE WAS A LADY

A socialite college coed moonlights as a burlesque dancer, and when she achieves a measure of fame must keep her job secret from the school's dean.

Released on: Tuesday, January 23, 1945
Duration: 67 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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TALK ABOUT A LADY

A musical-comedy about a millionaire's bequest to a kind-hearted woman, which pits his partner and widow against her while her friends turn their backs on her.

Released on: Thursday, March 28, 1946
Duration: 71 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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FEUDIN', FUSSIN', AND A-FIGHTIN'

Backwoods town rivalries in an annual foot race results in one's mayor detaining a travelling salesman to be a hot-footed ringer.

Released on: Thursday, July 1, 1948
Duration: 78 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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AFRICA SCREAMS

A&C lead a shady con woman and her henchmen into darkest Africa in search of diamonds.

Released on: Friday, May 27, 1949
Duration: 79 min.
Featuring: Shemp Howard and Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.53 / 10   (15 votes)

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WAITING IN THE LURCH

A man obsessed with watching firefighters in action misses his wedding, so he seeks psychiatric help to keep his girl.

Released on: Thursday, September 8, 1949
Duration: 15.75 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.17 / 10   (6 votes)

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JOE PALOOKA MEETS HUMPHREY

The honeymooning Palookas get involved with a benefit fight at a country resort hotel.

Released on: Sunday, February 5, 1950
Duration: 65 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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OUTSIDE THE WALL

An ex-con finds life on the outside tough, and is targeted by crooks who think he has the inside track on a missing $1 million from an armored car robbery.

Released on: Wednesday, February 8, 1950
Duration: 80 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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WOMAN IN HIDING

A woman fakes her death and assumes a new identity to hide from her husband, who wanted to kill her for her family fortune.

Released on: Wednesday, February 22, 1950
Duration: 92 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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DIZZY YARDBIRD

A rookie recruit drives his platoon sergeant crazy with his bumbling efforts.

Released on: Thursday, March 9, 1950
Duration: 16.67 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.25 / 10   (4 votes)

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DESERT HAWK, THE

A desert crusader marries a princess by deception and sets out to defeat emirs plotting to kill her father.

Released on: Tuesday, August 1, 1950
Duration: 74.33 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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'FRAIDY CAT

Two private eyes investigate a series of robberies and encounter a gang of crooks and their trained gorilla.

Released on: Thursday, December 13, 1951
Duration: 16.1 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.33 / 10   (6 votes)

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AIM, FIRE, SCOOT

Two reluctant recruits drive their sergeant crazy, and the sergeant makes it worse for himself by falling for one's girlfriend.

Released on: Thursday, March 13, 1952
Duration: 15.9 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.40 / 10   (5 votes)

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CAUGHT ON THE BOUNCE

To avoid foreclosure Joe and his wife hope to borrow money from her aunt. On the train to visit her, they cross paths with a bank robber.

Released on: Thursday, October 9, 1952
Duration: 15.6 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.63 / 10   (8 votes)

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DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A

Joe Besser provided the narration in this comedic story of two boys and their grandmother visiting a farm. Filmed in 3-D.

Released on: Friday, March 13, 1953
Duration: 13 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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SPIES AND GUYS

A bumbling private goes behind enemy lines to infiltrate enemy headquarters and rescue his Lt. girlfriend.

Released on: Thursday, April 9, 1953
Duration: 16 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.00 / 10   (7 votes)

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I, THE JURY

First film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's "Mike Hammer" classic as the P.I. investigates the death of a war buddy and uncovers a smuggling operation.

Released on: Friday, August 14, 1953
Duration: 87 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
8.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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SINS OF JEZEBEL

King Ahab weds the conniving Princess Jezebel, who plans to take total control of Israel and sends her husband's advisers into exile.

Released on: Friday, September 4, 1953
Duration: 74 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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FIRE CHASER, THE

In order to win back his ex-fiancee, a man obsessed with chasing fire trucks must crash her wedding and elude her father.

Released on: Thursday, September 30, 1954
Duration: 15.8 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
3.17 / 10   (6 votes)

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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS

Set in the days of silent film, A&C are cheated by a con man and travel to Hollywood to find him posing as a comedy director.

Released on: Wednesday, February 2, 1955
Duration: 79 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.20 / 10   (5 votes)

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G. I. DOOD IT

Pvt. Marblehead's bumbling tests the patience and sanity of Sgt. Flint, meanwhile there is a mystery involving stolen documents and a spy on the base.

Released on: Thursday, February 17, 1955
Duration: 16.1 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.50 / 10   (6 votes)

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MAD AT THE WORLD

When the police cannot find the gang members who killed a young child, a father turns vigilante to find the killers.

Released on: Friday, May 13, 1955
Duration: 76 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HEADLINE HUNTERS

A novice investigative reporter is fired due to a jealous news veteran, but turns to him when he finds a lead in the murder of a high-ranking city official.

Released on: Friday, September 2, 1955
Duration: 70 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HOOK A CROOK

Two detectives investigate robberies and encounter a gang using a trained gorilla for the thefts.

Released on: Thursday, November 24, 1955
Duration: 16 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.00 / 10   (6 votes)

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ARMY DAZE

Two bumbling privates drive their sergeant crazy, meanwhile there's a search for enemy spies loose on the base.

Released on: Thursday, March 22, 1956
Duration: 16.2 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
3.67 / 10   (6 votes)

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TWO-GUN LADY

A sharpshooter returns home in a quest for revenge against the rancher family that killed her parents.

Released on: Monday, October 15, 1956
Duration: 75 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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HELEN MORGAN STORY, THE

Bio-pic of famed 1920s - 1930s singer Helen Morgan, from her carnival days to Broadway success, to her decline and struggle with alcoholism.

Released on: Wednesday, October 2, 1957
Duration: 118 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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PLUNDERERS OF PAINTED FLATS, THE

A greedy rancher hires a gunfighter to drive away the local farmers who have set down roots with mail order brides.

Released on: Friday, January 23, 1959
Duration: 70 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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SAY ONE FOR ME

A neighborhood priest tries to stop a dance club owner from taking advantage of a young girl who is performing to pay for her college education.

Released on: Friday, June 19, 1959
Duration: 119 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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WOODCUTTER'S HOUSE, THE

Test footage for an unproduced Disney TV project features Joe Besser as an elf.

Released on: Monday, July 13, 1959
Duration: 15 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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ROOKIE, THE

Although WW2 is over, a draftee insists the government honor its commitment and keep an Army camp open solely to provide him with basic training.

Released on: Tuesday, December 1, 1959
Duration: 84 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
3.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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STORY ON PAGE ONE, THE

A couple goes on trial for the killing of her abusive husband, preferring to be tried together rather than testify against each other.

Released on: Tuesday, December 1, 1959
Duration: 123 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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LET'S MAKE LOVE

A billionaire poses as an actor to disrupt a play based on his life, and falls in love with the star.

Released on: Thursday, September 8, 1960
Duration: 118 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
3.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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CINDERFELLA

Role reversal in a reworking of the fairy tale, with Jerry Lewis as stepson Fella who falls in love with the Princess Charmaine.

Released on: Thursday, December 1, 1960
Duration: 91 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
3.50 / 10   (8 votes)

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SILENT CALL, THE

A dog goes on a cross-country quest to find his family who moved away.

Released on: Saturday, July 1, 1961
Duration: 62.9 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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ERRAND BOY, THE

A bumbling stooge is hired by movie execs to spy for them and winds up turning their studio upside down.

Released on: Tuesday, November 28, 1961
Duration: 95 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
8.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HAND OF DEATH

An experiment gone wrong turns a scientist into a monster whose touch causes instant death.

Released on: Thursday, March 1, 1962
Duration: 58 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL

A widow and widower marry but find it difficult to manage their newly-blended family.

Released on: Wednesday, August 7, 1968
Duration: 99 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
7.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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SAVAGE INTRUDER

A faded movie star unknowingly hires a serial killer as her personal nurse.

Released on: Wednesday, January 1, 1969
Duration: 91 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
2.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?

A wealthy man is 4F, so decides to lead his private team of commandos into Europe to break the stalemate in Italy, and then to assassinate Hitler.

Released on: Wednesday, July 22, 1970
Duration: 96 min.
Featuring: Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:
4.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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