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Over My Dead Body(1942)
Status: Released
Date: 1942-01-15
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1 Votes
Time: 1h 8m
A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!
Overview:
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
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Movie: Over My Dead Body
Top 10 Billed Cast
Milton Berle
Jason Cordry
Mary Beth Hughes
Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston
Reginald Denny
Richard 'Dick' Brenner
Frank Orth
Detective
William B. Davidson
Crole (as William Davidson)
Wonderful Smith
Wonderful
Pat O'Malley
Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
George M. Carleton
Judge
John Hamilton
District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
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Overview
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Release Date
1942-01-15
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A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!
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