Directed by:
George MarshallScreenplay:
Lou BreslowCinematography:
Theodor SparkuhlComposer:
Robert Emmett DolanCast:
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Barbara Pepper, Porter Hall, James Flavin, Walter Baldwin, Peter Whitney, Milton Parsons, Syd Saylor (more)Plots(1)
Fred MacMurray was fresh off the set of "Double Indemnity" when he took on this comic variation of his role. Here, MacMurray plays Pete Marshall, a public opinion surveyor who is drawn into a web of murder, double-crosses, and schemes--amidst the glamour, not of the Hollywood Hills, but of the Ozarks. Marshall is sent to the Ozarks to replace a fellow employee who has been killed by the redneck Fleagles, a family which includes two dimwitted twin sons, a certifiably insane daughter, a ghost, a mother who runs the house with a bullwhip, a young woman posing as an incarcerated relative, and a grandmother who has been poisoned with a radioactive substance that makes her glow in the dark. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Fred MacMurray
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Apartment (1960)
Helen Walker
USA
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Call Northside 777 (1948)
The Big Combo (1955)
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Marjorie Main
USA
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The Harvey Girls (1946)
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Jean Heather
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Going My Way (1944)
Barbara Pepper
USA
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
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Porter Hall
USA
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
James Flavin
USA
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
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Walter Baldwin
USA
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Peter Whitney
USA
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Milton Parsons
USA
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Syd Saylor
USA
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USA
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George McKay
Russian Empire
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Going My Way (1944)
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Tom Fadden
USA
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Ralph Peters
USA
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Si Jenks
USA
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Harry Allen
Australia
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Holiday (1938)
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Mabel Paige
USA
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
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William Meader
USA
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