ID

FBW001367      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1943

Original Title

They Got Me Murdered

Directed by

David Butler

Produced by

Sam Goldwyn Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Staff

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn; Artistic supervision: Perry Ferguson; Script: Harry Kurnitz (Based on a story by Leonard Q. Ross, Leonard Spigelgass); Based on: Leonard Q. Ross, Leonard Spigelgass; Camera: Rudolph Maté; Editing: Daniel Mandell; Special Effects: Ray O. Binger; Costumes: Adrian (=Adrian Adolph Greenberg); Music: Constantin Bakaleinikoff; Musical arrangements: Leigh Harline

Cast

Bob Hope (Robert Kittredge); Dorothy Lamour (Christina Hill); Lenore Aubert (Mrs. Margo Vanescu); Otto Preminger (Otto Fauscheim); Eduardo Ciannelli (Baldanacco); Marion Martin (Gloria, the "Glow Girl"); Donald Meek (Little Old Man); Phyllis Ruth (Sally); Philip Ahn (Nichimuro); Donald MacBride (Norman Mason); Mary Treen (Helen); Bettye Avery (Mildred Smith); Margaret Hayes (Lucille); Mary Byrne (Laura); William Yetter, Sr. (Holtz); Henry Guttman (Faber); Florence Bates (Gypsy Woman); Walter Catlett (Hotel Manager); John Abbott (Gregory Vanescu); Frank Sully (Red); Wolfgang Zilzer (Gross); Nino Pipitone (Testori); George Chandler (Smith); Stanley Clements (Office Boy); Don Brodie (Joe McGirk); Arnold Stang (Drug Store Boy); Etta McDaniel (Georgia); Hugh Prosser (Captain); Donald Kerr (Stage Manager); Doris Day (Beautiful Girl in Sheet); Lane Chandler; Dick Keene (Reporter); Edward Gargan; Ralph Dunn (Cop); Lou Lubin (Bellboy); Harry C. Bradley (Hotel Waiter); Ferike Boros (Laughing Woman); Pat Lane (Ballet Dancer); Jack Carr (Conmedian); Bill O'Leary (Tramp); Peggy Lynn (Burlesque Actress); Lillian Castle (Wardrobe Woman); Anne O'Neal (Woman Patron); Hans Schumm (Schmidt); Henry Victor (Straeger); Vic Mazetti; Tom Mazetti; John Sinclair; Gil Perkins (Nazi); George Sherwood (Reporter); Byron Shores (FBI Man); Charles Legneur (Passenger in Plane); Joe Devlin (Mussolini); Kam Tong (Hawara); Willie Fung (Laundry Man); Greta Meyer (Katrina); Walter Soderling; Lyle Latell; John Mather; Raymond Turner; Stanley Price; Shimen Ruskin; Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Robert O. Davis)

Length

95'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

The WWII war correspondent Robert Kittredge is fired for forgetting to announce that Hitler has invaded Russia. He then goes about trying to prove himself a worthy reporter by uncovering a Nazi spy ring.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987