Off Again, On Again

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 16 min
  • Premiere: 1945. February 16.

Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.

Discover

Shemp Howard

Woodcock Q. Strinker

Dick Curtis

Louie Derringer

Grace Lenard

Maisie Frump

Bobby Burns

Customer (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Man Going Hunting (uncredited)

Lew Davis

Man on Street (uncredited)

Budd Fine

Policeman (uncredited)

Bud Jamison

Hotel Detective (uncredited)

Directing

Jules White

Director

Writing

Searle Kramer

Screenplay

Victor Travis

Screenplay

Directing

Jules White

Director

Writing

Searle Kramer

Screenplay

Victor Travis

Screenplay