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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
“A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!”
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · 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.
Cast
Danny Kaye
Walter Mitty
Virginia Mayo
Rosalind van Hoorn
Boris Karloff
Dr. Hollingshead
Fay Bainter
Mrs. Mitty
Ann Rutherford
Gertrude Griswold
Thurston Hall
Bruce Pierce
Gordon Jones
Tubby Wadsworth
Florence Bates
Mrs. Griswold
Konstantin Shayne
Peter van Hoorn
Reginald Denny
Colonel
Henry Corden
Hendrick
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Follinsbee
Crew
- Director
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Screenplay
- Everett Freeman, Ken Englund
- Director of Photography
- Lee Garmes
- Original Music Composer
- David Raksin
- Editor
- Monica Collingwood
- Producer
- Samuel Goldwyn
Details
- Release date
- 1947-09-01
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Box office
- $956,625