The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Directed by

Norman Z. McLeod

Genre

drama film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 140 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shy proofreader escapes his dull life by slipping into vivid daydreams where he is a hero. His fantasy world gets tangled with reality when he meets a woman who seems to step right out of his imagination.

whimsicallighthearteddaydreamyromanticcomicalplayfulcheerfulfast-paced

What happens

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 American Technicolor adventure comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, and Philip Rapp (uncredited), loosely based on the 1939 short story by James Thurber. The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming proofreader for a magazine publishing firm and Virginia Mayo as the woman of his dreams. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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