Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
IT'S A MURDER SPREE...with a chuckle in very shiver and a laugh in every shudder!
Newlyweds drag their lawyer friend to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
- Date of release
- 1945-04-12
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- A. Edward Sutherland
Casting
- Pat O'Brien — Michael J. Malone
- George Murphy — Jake Justus
- Carole Landis — Helene Justus
- Lenore Aubert — Gilda Mayfair
- George Zucco — King aka The Great Movel
- Gloria Holden — Phyllis Gray (as Anje Berens)
- Richard Martin — Lance Richards
- Charles D. Brown — Mr. Winslow
- William 'Wee Willie' Davis — Zacharias, the Porter
- Blanche Ring — Elizabeth Lenhart
- Chili Williams — Blonde in Polka Dots
- Edward Fielding — Doctor (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Having Wonderful Crime
Having Wonderful Crime is a 1945 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Eddie Sutherland from a screenplay by Howard J. Green, Stewart Sterling, and Parke Levy, based on the novel of the same name by Craig Rice. In her series novels the main character was named John J. Malone, but for some reason the lawyer's name was changed for this film. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it opened in New York City on April 12, 1945. The film stars Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, and Carole Landis.
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