Behind the Eight Ball 1942

FUN STARS ! TUNE-STARS! LOVE-STARS! Hep-steppers and Happy Honeys!

4.7 / 10   3 vote(s)
NR
Music Comedy

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

Release Date 1942-12-04
Runtime 60m
Directors Edward F. Cline, Charles Previn, George Robinson
Producer Howard Benedict
Writers Stanley Roberts, Mel Ronson, Stanley Roberts