Film
Behind the Eight Ball
1942Directed by Edward F. Cline
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h
About Behind the Eight Ball
- Music
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Edward F. Cline
- Writers
- Stanley Roberts
- Mel Ronson
