Bud Abbott
Chick Larkin
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Who Done It? is a 1942 American comedy-mystery film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It is noteworthy as their first feature that contains no musical numbers. Plot. Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim both work at the soda counter of a local radio station's headquarters.
Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan. Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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- Comedy, Mystery
- Erle C. Kenton
- 1942-11-06
Released on November 6, 1942, Who Done It? rounded out Abbott and Costello's career-making year. In this spoof of murder mysteries, Bud Abbott stars as Chick Larkin and Lou Costello is Mervyn Milgrim, two aspiring radio writers who get pulled into a real murder case when the director of a radio station is killed during a broadcast of "Murder at ...
- Erle C. Kenton, Howard Christie
- Bud Abbott
Who Done It? is a 1942 American comedy-mystery film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It is noteworthy that their first fe...
Who Done It? (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Overview. Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast. Stanley Roberts. Screenplay, Story. Erle C. Kenton. Director. John Grant. Screenplay. Edmund Joseph. Screenplay.
Notable as the first A&C film to ditch the musical numbers in favor of non-stop silliness as Costello delves deeper and deeper into the art of turning himself into a human cartoon. BONUS POINTS for Walter Tetley as the elevator…
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- Universal Pictures
- Erle C. Kenton
