Who Done It? (1942 film)
1942 film by Erle C. Kenton
Who Done It? is a 1942 American film about two aspiring mystery writers who become involved with a real murder case.
- Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Written by Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, and John Grant.
Mervin Q. Milgrim
edit- [reading from radio script] The title of this story is---"The Midget Gets The Chair", or "Small Fry"!
Dialogue
edit- Chick Larkin: [about Juliet Collins] She's only got a couple of buck teeth.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: Why do I care what she paid for them?
- Customer: What happened to my strawberry sundae?
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: What's today?
- Customer: Friday.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: You've got two more days to wait.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: [nauseous] I gotta go back upstairs and get something...
- Chick Larkin: What have you gotta get?
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: My stomach...
- Col. J.R. Andrews: Mr. Turner, may I remind you that I have a contract for your services, and I intend to exercise it.
- Jimmy Turner: You'll get plenty of exercise trying to find me.
- Wiseguy Kid Usher: Hey, do you know there's a couple of soda jerks around here playing detective?
- Detective Brannigan: G'wan! Don't you know it's against the law to impersonate an officer?
- Wiseguy Kid Usher: Well, then how do you get away with it?
- Chick Larkin: If we solve this case, the public will be begging for "MUCK AND MIRE'.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: And if the murderer gets us, we'll do plenty of begging, too!
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: Don't call me Blimp!
- Detective Brannigan: Why not?
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: What makes a blimp go up?
- Detective Brannigan: Hot air.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: What's holding you down?
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: I'm getting a lot of silly answers from this guy.
- Chick Larkin: Well, grill him.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: What?
- Chick Larkin: Grill him.
- Mervin Q. Milgrim: I'm not hungry!
Cast
edit- Bud Abbott — Chick Larkin
- Lou Costello — Mervin Q. Milgrim
- Patric Knowles — Jimmy Turner
- William Gargan — Police Lt. Lou Moran
- Louise Allbritton — Jane Little
- Thomas Gomez — Col. J.R. Andrews
- William Bendix — Detective Brannigan
- Don Porter — Art Fraser
- Jerome Cowan — Marco Heller
- Mary Wickes — Juliet Collins
- Ludwig Stössel — Dr. Anton Marek
External links
edit- Who Done It? quotes at the Internet Movie Database