The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Richard Tyler
- Homer Floogle
- (as Dickie Tyler)
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Did you know
- TriviaOn one of Fred Allen's "Texaco Star Theater" radio broadcasts around 1941, Allen joked that Don Ameche was playing so many real-life characters in movies that if he wasn't careful Ameche would play Don Ameche in a movie one of these days. In this picture, Ameche indeed played himself in a scene opposite Fred Allen.
- GoofsWhen Parker is showing the Floogles his son's mousetrap he shows how the entry teeter board works by moving it. After a cut to the Floogles and back to Parker, he's moving the teeter board the same way again.
- Quotes
Fred F. Trumble Floogle: [being asked by a reporter about the economic situations] I'm glad you asked that. It's pitching, it's pinching me under the shoulder.
- Crazy creditsBefore the final card at the end of the movie, Fred Allen breaks the fourth wall one more time and says to the audience "Folks, you've got to come back to the next show, immediate seats on the inside."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Maltin on Movies: Identity Thief (2013)
- SoundtracksSunday, Monday or Always
(1943) (uncredited)
Music By Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyrics by Johnny Burke
Sung briefly by Frank Sinatra on a phonograph record
Featured review
Well, actually more like an "Uncle Scrooge" adventure turned into a movie, with acerbic Fred Allen subbing for Carl Barks' peripatetic miser, running into, across and over a panoply of bizarre characters in search of (what else, Uncle Scrooge?) a lost fortune. "Bag" offers the usual Barks-type exotic locales -- there's a byzantine movie theater that seems deliberately Disney-esque -- and colorful characters, here embodied by some surprising Hollywood figures (Rudy Vallee, Don Ameche, Jerry Colonna, etc,)The inevitable encounter with jack Benny is funny enough, but my favorite cameo here was etched by John Carradine as an organ-playing arch-villain, complete with cape and top-hat. Not to be missed!
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- The Fifth Chair
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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