An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Don Beddoe
- Green Sox Manager
- (uncredited)
Bruce Bennett
- Ole Margarine
- (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
- Train Bartender
- (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
- Thug
- (uncredited)
Chuck Callahan
- Baseball Spectator
- (uncredited)
Monte Collins
- Baseball Spectator with Pipe
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore
- Ole's Girlfriend
- (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Baseball Spectator with Toupee
- (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
- Baseball Spectator with Hotdog
- (uncredited)
Richard Fiske
- Thug
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Tennis Spectator
- (uncredited)
George Gray
- Baseball Spectator
- (uncredited)
Jack Hill
- Baseball Spectator
- (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
- Baseball Spectator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Alternate versionsA scene was trimmed from Charley's long scene of heckling near the beginning, probably when the film ran on TV: Charley inflates his popcorn bag and explodes it, making a loud bang and causing an African-American baby boy to start crying. After complaining about the kid crying, he buys a hot dog and jams it in the kid's mouth. The kid pulls the hot dog out and says, in a deep voice, "Where's de mustard?"
- ConnectionsEdited into Mr. Noisy (1946)
Featured review
Charley Chase's iconic spoof of the irritating fan...
Charley Chase's terrific 1940 two-reeler THE HECKLER---sadly unavailable on DVD as of this writing---not only showcased Chase's talent for obnoxious élan (observed to scene-stealing effect in the 1934 Laurel&Hardy classic SONS OF THE DESERT), it also provided a legendary catcall well known to baseball fans who might not know its origin in THE HECKLER. Charley's piercing outcry---the prototype of that single voice that rises above the crowd noise at any baseball game---hilariously causes a hitter to swing and miss so violently that he nearly screws himself into the ground! He rights himself and angrily searches the crowd for the offending fan, only to be subjected to more of the same from the triumphantly cackling Charley! I recall that this short would turn up often on TV during my youth, giving rise to an epidemic outbreak from Little League benches of Chase's batter-rattling psyche-out:
"Watch 'im MISS it!!"
Great stuff---whose attribution has been lost in the churn of pop culture.
"Watch 'im MISS it!!"
Great stuff---whose attribution has been lost in the churn of pop culture.
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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