Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball

FUN STARS ! TUNE-STARS! LOVE-STARS! Hep-steppers and Happy Honeys!

NR 1942 · 60 min · ★ 5.2 · Music, Comedy

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.

Directed by Edward F. Cline · Written by Stanley Roberts

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Al Ritz Al Jester
Jimmy Ritz Jimmy Jester
Harry Ritz Harry Jester
Carol Bruce Joan Barry
Dick Foran Bill Edwards
Grace McDonald Babs
Johnny Downs Danny
William Demarest McKenzie

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