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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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

6.8

1947•1h 50m

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.

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Photo of Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Walter Mitty

Photo of Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Rosalind van Hoorn

Photo of Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

Dr Hugo Hollingshead

Photo of Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter

Eunice Mitty

Photo of Ann Rutherford

Ann Rutherford

Gertrude Griswold

Photo of Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

Bruce Pierce

Photo of Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

Tubby Wadsworth

Photo of Florence Bates

Florence Bates

Irmagarde Griswold

Photo of Konstantin Shayne

Konstantin Shayne

Peter van Hoorn

Photo of Reginald Denny

Reginald Denny

Air Commodore

Photo of Henry Corden

Henry Corden

Hendrick

Photo of Doris Lloyd

Doris Lloyd

Letitia Follinsbee

Photo of Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld

Anatole

Photo of Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher

Karel Maasdam

Photo of Milton Parsons

Milton Parsons

Tyler

Photo of Eddie Acuff

Eddie Acuff

Wells Fargo Cowboy (uncredited)

Photo of Robert Altman

Robert Altman

Man Drinking (uncredited)

Photo of Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Western Character (uncredited)

Photo of Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe

Floor Manager (uncredited)

Photo of Chris-Pin Martin

Chris-Pin Martin

Waiter (uncredited)

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John Chard

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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