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Whistling in the Dark est un film américain de genre Comédie réalisé par S. Sylvan Simon avec Red Skelton
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
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Ajouter à une liste de filmsWhistling in the Dark is the first of three comedy films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries. Wally is kidnapped by a greedy cult leader (played by Conrad Veidt), who threatens to kill Wally's girlfriend (portrayed in all three films by Ann Rutherford) and another young woman unless he concocts a perfect murder. The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter. Uncredited contributing writer Elliott Nugent wrote and directed the earlier film adaptation of the same name.
The two sequels are Whistling in Dixie (1942) and Whistling in Brooklyn (1943).
Synopsis
Wally Benton (Red Skelton) is the star of a mystery series on radio, The Fox, which he writes himself, inventing for each episode a crime that has "only one loophole" so the criminal can be caught. He is about to elope with Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford), but his agent (Eve Arden) tells him he must go out with the sponsor's daughter, Fran Post (Virginia Grey), or risk his show being canceled.Acteurs
Red Skelton
(Wally Benton)
Conrad Veidt
(Joseph Jones)
Ann Rutherford
(Carol Lambert)
Virginia Grey
('Fran' Post)
Rags Ragland
(Sylvester)
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