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Whistling in Dixie is a american film of genre Comedy directed by S. Sylvan Simon released in USA on 31 december 1942 with Red Skelton
Whistling in Dixie (1942)
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Add to a movie listWhistling in Dixie is a 1942 crime comedy film, the second of three starring Red Skelton as murder mystery writer and amateur crime solver Wally Benton (aka. The Fox) and Ann Rutherford as his fiancee. The pair are called upon to solve a crime in the American South. The film also re-introduces Rags Ragland, playing dual roles as twins, the mostly-reformed Chester, as well as his villainous brother from the first film. The film turns into a romantic comedy mystery, complete with death traps, corrupt politicians and lost gold, ending with a frenetic fight at the end between Wally Benton and both of Rags Ragland's characters.
The film is a sequel to Whistling in the Dark and is followed by Whistling in Brooklyn.
Actors
Red Skelton
(Wally Benton)
Ann Rutherford
(Carol Lambert)
Guy Kibbee
(Judge George Lee)
Diana Lewis
(Ellamae Downs)
George Bancroft
(Sheriff Claude Stagg)
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