Whistling in the Dark (1933)

Directed by

Charles Reisner, Elliott Nugent

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mystery writer thinks up a perfect murder plot for a book. A gangster hears about it and wants to use the idea for a real crime.

lightheartedwittyplayfulsuspensefulfast-pacedcomediccleverpre-code

What happens

Whistling in the Dark (U.S. television title: Scared!) is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Ernest Truex and Una Merkel. The plot concerns a mystery writer whose scheme for a perfect murder comes to the attention of a gangster (Edward Arnold), who plans to use it. The film is based on the Broadway play of the same name by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter, which played for 265 performances in 1932-33. Edward Arnold played the same role in the Broadway stage production. In 1941, the film was remade starring Red Skelton and Ann Rutherford. Skelton then played the role of "Wallace Porter" in two sequels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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