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Whistling in the Dark is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 21 january 1933 with Ernest Truex

Whistling in the Dark (1933)

Whistling in the Dark
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Released in USA 21 january 1933
Length 1h19
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Crime
Rating64% 3.239943.239943.239943.239943.23994

Whistling in the Dark (U.S. television title: Scared!) is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy-mystery film 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.

Actors

Ernest Truex

(Wallace Porter)Una Merkel

(Toby Van Buren)Edward Arnold

(Dillon)John Miljan

(Charlie)C. Henry Gordon

(Lombardo)
And :
Joseph Cawthorn
Johnny Hines
Nat Pendleton
Tenen Holtz
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