One Body Too Many

1944
PG
1h 15m

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Jack Haley and Jean Parker in One Body Too Many (1944)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAn insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relative... Tout lireAn insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.

Director
- Frank McDonald
Writers
- Winston Miller
- Maxwell Shane
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

5,4/10

1,6 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Frank McDonald
Writers
- Winston Miller
- Maxwell Shane
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Citations
Insurance agent: Tuttle, the way you keep that nose to the grindstone, you're gonna wear out the grindstone.

Connexions
Featured in Beware Theater: One Body Too Many (2021)

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Mediocre Old Mansion Melodrama

These old "revolving panels and candlelight" mysteries are usually a mix of elements played for laughs more than shivers. Jack Haley is an insurance salesman mistaken for a detective hired to guard the corpse of a millionaire all night so that the provisions of the old man's will can be satisfied. The greedy heirs must stay in this mini insane asylum until morning or lose their inheritance. Midnight murders prevail, of course, with the usual wisecracks, jealous insults and idioms of the day (or night). Jack Haley is the reluctant hero of sorts in this wee hours fiasco, although he would rather be somewhere else. For the genre, however, it is true to form and worth a look.