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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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6.7/10 • 129

1947-09-011h 50m

ComedyFantasyRomance

A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Directors
Norman Z. McLeod
Editors
Monica Collingwood

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  1. Danny Kaye

    Danny Kaye

    Walter Mitty

  2. Virginia Mayo

    Virginia Mayo

    Rosalind van Hoorn

  3. Fay Bainter

    Fay Bainter

    Mrs. Mitty

  4. Thurston Hall

    Thurston Hall

    Bruce Pierce

  5. Ann Rutherford

    Ann Rutherford

    Gertrude Griswold

  6. Florence Bates

    Florence Bates

    Mrs. Griswold

  7. Gordon Jones

    Gordon Jones

    Tubby Wadsworth

  8. Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff

    Dr. Hugo Hollingshead

  9. Konstantin Shayne

    Konstantin Shayne

    Peter van Hoorn

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John Chard

Apr 3, 2020

7/10

I wake up dreaming. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Norman Z. McLeod and adapted loosely to screenplay by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman from the short story of the same name written by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Konstantin Shayne and Gordon Jones. A Technicoor production with music by Sylvia Fine (songs) and David Raskin (score) and cinematography by Lee Garmes. Milquetoast Walter Mitty (Kaye) escapes the incessant needling of those around him by dreaming up exciting adventures for himself. Upon meeting gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn (Mayo) he gets thrust into a real adventure involving Dutch treasure, but this is real stuff and his life is under threat! A lovely Danny Kaye vehicle full of neatly constructed comedy, pleasant tunes and Technicolor supreme. It's too long at ten minutes shy of two hours, and non Kaye fans are unlikely to be converted, but for the fans this is a delightful way to spend an afternoon as the spy plot unfolds in a whirl of energised malarkey. Karloff a bonus as well. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$956,625.00
Keywords
daydreaming