Whistling in the Dark (1933)
1h 19m
Running Time
January 21, 1933Release Date
Whistling in the Dark (1933)
1h 19m
Running Time
January 21, 1933Release Date
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Plot.
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ernest Truex
Wallace Porter
Una Merkel
Toby Van Buren
Edward Arnold
Jake Dillon
John Miljan
Charlie Shaw
C. Henry Gordon
Ricco Lombardo
Elliott Nugent
Director
Johnny Hines
Slim
Charles Reisner
Director
Joseph Cawthorn
Barfuss
Nat Pendleton
Joe Salvatore
Laurence Gross
Writer
Edward Childs Carpenter
Writer
Tenen Holtz
Herman
Marcelle Corday
Hilda
Norbert Brodine
Cinematographer
Frederick Burton
Mr. Van Buren (uncredited)
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Wiki.
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.