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Sure Cures

Sure Cures

5,7 /10 (7 Votes)
1946 EN 11 min

Overview

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

Release date

02/11/1946

Votes

7

Popularity

0.4

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

11 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-07-26

⭐ 6

Though this does rather labour the points it makes, it still manages to poke some fun as this poor chap (Dave O’Brien) tries all manner of cures he might have bought from a quack medicine show to stop everything from baldness to sleep deprivation and then hiccups. The first of his ailments offers narrator Pete Smith a chance to showcase the range of miracle cures available as his hairline recedes, whilst the make-up artists have some fun creating his ever exposing scalp. Then the poor fella, whose hair appears to have now stabilised, cannot get to sleep. Perhaps that’s down to his wife’s snori…

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