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Over My Dead Body (1942)

Name: Over My Dead Body
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Genre: Mystery, Comedy
Released: 1942-01-15
Duration: 68 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes, Reginald Denny, Frank Orth, William B. Davidson

A Berle's Best Friend... Is His Murder!

68 min · United States of America · Dir. Malcolm St. Clair

Mystery Comedy 1942 movies

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.