Sure Cures

Sure Cures

2/11/1946 0h 11m 5.2/10

Overview

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

Director

Dave O'Brien

Top Billed Cast

Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien

Xavier T. Schneckendorf

Pete Smith

Pete Smith

Narrator (voice)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/26/2025

6/10

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 snoring, or to a squeaky mattress - he appears to be sleeping on some wartime army surplus contraption. Finally, perhaps he is attempting to solve his previous problem by turning himself into a water bed to eradicate his hiccups. Maybe he should just have taken a pill, or a pillow? Simple, but still quite good fun.

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