Behind the Eight Ball (1942)
FUN STARS ! TUNE-STARS! LOVE-STARS! Hep-steppers and Happy Honeys!
60 min
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.
- Release date
- December 4, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Al Ritz as Al Jester
- Jimmy Ritz as Jimmy Jester
- Harry Ritz as Harry Jester
- Carol Bruce as Joan Barry
- Dick Foran as Bill Edwards
- Grace McDonald as Babs
- Johnny Downs as Danny
- William Demarest as Police Chief McKenzie
- Richard Davies as Clay Martin
- Russell Hicks as Harry B. Kemp
Crew
- Edward F. Cline · Director
- Stanley Roberts · Writer
- Mel Ronson · Writer
- George Robinson · Cinematographer
- Maurice Wright · Editor