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Killer Diller is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 january 1948 with Butterfly McQueen
Killer Diller (1948)
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Add to a movie listKiller Diller is a 1948 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Josh Binney and released by All American.
The movie features The Clark Brothers (tap dancers), Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Butterfly McQueen, the Andy Kirk Orchestra and the Four Congaroos (dancing Lindy Hop).
Synopsis
Dusty Fletcher plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening's variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola (Nellie Hill), the girlfriend of the show's manager Baltimore Dumdone (George Wiltshire). She was wearing a thousand-dollar string of pearls and it seems most likely that criminality is afoot.Actors
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