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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

NR 09/01/1947 Comedy, Fantasy, Romance 1h 50m
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User
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6.9/10
75%

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

Overview

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.

Norman Z. McLeod

Director

James Thurber

Story

Ken Englund

Screenplay

Everett Freeman

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Walter Mitty

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Rosalind van Hoorn

Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter

Mrs. Mitty

Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

Bruce Pierce

Ann Rutherford

Ann Rutherford

Gertrude Griswold

Florence Bates

Florence Bates

Mrs. Griswold

Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

Tubby Wadsworth

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

Dr. Hugo Hollingshead

Konstantin Shayne

Konstantin Shayne

Peter van Hoorn

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on April 3, 2020

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 ful...

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