The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
A BOMBARDMENT OF LAUGHS!
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
- Date of release
- 1939-11-22
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Director
- Alexander Hall
Casting
- Melvyn Douglas — Kenny Williams
- Joan Blondell — Maxine Carroll
- Clarence Kolb — Captain McGovern
- Ruth Donnelly — Effie Perkins
- Edward Brophy — Buck Moseby
- Donald MacBride — Lieutenant Bixler
- Don Beddoe — Detective Deever
- Jonathan Hale — Mayor
- John Wray — Stanley
- Jane Barnes — Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Julie Bishop — Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)
- Lela Bliss — Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a 1939 American screwball comedy film produced by Everett Riskin for Columbia Pictures and directed by Alexander Hall. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell and Clarence Kolb. It was written by Dwight Taylor, Sy Bartlett and Richard Maibaum. The film is about a police lieutenant who is too busy solving crimes to marry his longtime fiancée, who decides to take action and get him to marry her and settle down. The film was released on November 22, 1939.
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