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'FRAIDY CAT (1951)

Film Pick of the Day
Sunday, August 2, 2026

Wide Awake Detective Agency investigators Joe and Hawth have failed to solve the antique robberies of the Ape Man Gang, and are given one last chance by their boss, I. Katchum. Guarding an antique shop late at night, the boys come face-to-face with a gang of crooks who have trained a real gorilla for the break-ins.

A remake of The Three Stooges' DIZZY DETECTIVES (1943), with some stock footage from that short. Remade with stock footage as HOOK A CROOK (1955), also starring Besser and Hawthorne.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 4.33/10 ]   6 votes
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Release Date Thursday, December 13, 1951
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 16.1 min.

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Births

Claude Gillingwater
(Actor)
b. 1870

Louisiana, MO

Ferike Boros
(Actress)
b. 1880

Nagvarad, Hungary

Chuck Callahan
(Actor)
b. 1889

Olean, NY

Bob Burns
(Actor)
b. 1890

Van Buren, AR

Marin Sais
(Actress)
b. 1890

San Rafael, CA

Horace Hough
(Assistant Director)
b. 1891

Mount Washington, KY

Jack L. Warner
(Executive Producer)
b. 1892

London, Ontario, Canada

Lynton Brent
(Actor)
b. 1897

Chicago, IL

Glenn Tryon
(Associate Producer)
b. 1898

Julietta, ID

James Parrott
(Screenplay)
b. 1898

Baltimore, MD

Helen Morgan
(Actress)
b. 1900

Danville, IL

Ted D. McCord
(Director of Photography)
b. 1900

Sullivan County, IN

Guy Repp
(Actor)
b. 1902

Paul Mantz
(Actor)
b. 1903

Alameda, CA

Victor McLeod
(Screenplay, archive footage)
b. 1903

Boise, ID

Myrna Loy
(Actress)
b. 1905

Radersburg, MT

Milton S. Rosen
(Music)
b. 1906

Yonkers, NY

Howland Chamberlain
(Actor)
b. 1911

New York, NY

Rusty Wescoatt
(Actor)
b. 1911

Maui, HI

Ann Dvorak
(Actress)
b. 1912

New York, NY

Edric Connor
(Actor)
b. 1913

Mayaro, Trinidad, British West Indies

Johnny Coons
(Actor)
b. 1916

Lebanon, IN

Butch Patrick
(Actor)
b. 1953

Los Angeles, CA

Victoria Jackson
(Actress)
b. 1959

Miami, FL


Deaths

Charles K. French
(Actor)
d. 1952   (92)

Los Angeles, CA

J. Farrell MacDonald
(Actor)
d. 1952   (77)

Los Angeles, CA

Hugh S. Fowler
(Film Editor)
d. 1975   (63)

Los Angeles, CA

Jean Yarbrough
(Director)
d. 1975   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Donald Ogden Stewart
(Screenplay)
d. 1980   (85)

London, England

Frank Faylen
(Actor)
d. 1985   (79)

Burbank, CA

Al Rosen
(Actor)
d. 1990   (80)

Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Elam
(Actor)
d. 1990   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Al Adamson
(Director)
d. 1995   (66)

Indio, CA

Lillian Bronson
(Actress)
d. 1995   (92)

Los Angeles, CA


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