Film

Over My Dead Body

1942 · 1h 8m · Mystery · Comedy

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

IMDb

6.1

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.

Milton Berle

Jason Cordry

Mary Beth Hughes

Patricia Cordry aka Pat Preston

Reginald Denny

Richard 'Dick' Brenner

Frank Orth

Detective

William B. Davidson

Crole (as William Davidson)

Wonderful Smith

Wonderful

Pat O'Malley

Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)

George M. Carleton

Judge

John Hamilton

District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater

Jill Warren

Elsie Bailey

Milton Parsons

George Lawrin

Leon Belasco

Pierre

Charles Trowbridge

Honest Tom Mardley

Lon McCallister

Jimmie

Cyril Ring

Court Clerk

Edwin August

Bailiff

• Malcolm St. ClairDirector
• Edward JamesScreenplay
• James O'HanlonNovel
• Walter MoroscoProducer
• Lucien N. AndriotDirector of Photography
• J. Watson Webb Jr.Editor

Release date

January 15, 1942

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 8m

Rated

NR

Genres

Mystery, Comedy

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