Who Done It? (film)

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Who Done It?
Who Done It? VHS Cover
Directed by	Erle C. Kenton
Produced by	Alex Gottlieb
Written by	Stanley Roberts Edmund Joseph John Grant
Starring	Bud Abbott Lou Costello William Gargan William Bendix Mary Wilkes
Music by	Charles Previn
Editing by	Arthur Hilton
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 6, 1942 (U.S. release)
Running time	76 min
Language	English
Preceded by	Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Followed by	It Ain't Hay (1943)
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Who Done It? is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 DVD Release
4 External link

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Chick Larkin (Bud Abbott) and Mervyn Milgrim (Lou Costello) both work at the soda counter of a local radio station. Their true passsion, however, is to become writers on the radio mystery show. They attend a broadcast of the radio program Murder at Midnight along with one of the writers, Jimmy Turner (Patric Knowles) and the producer, Jane Little (Louise Allbritton).

As the show is beginning, the network president, Colonel J.R. Andrews (Thomas Gomez), is electrocuted. Seeing this as their opportunity to become radio writers, Chick and Mervyn impersonate detectives and attempt to solve the crime.

Meanwhile, Moran (William Gargan) and Branningan (William Bendix), two real detectives, arrive and consider the 'fake' detectives to be the prime suspects. A chase ensues throughout the studio and other murders are discovered, including Dr. Marek (Ludwig Stossel), Andrews' personal physician. During the chase Larkin and Milgrim leave the studio and discover that Milgrim has won $10,000 on the Wheel of Fortune radio program, for which he must return to the studio to claim his prize. However, the real detectives are waiting for them there and arrest them when they return. It is at this point where Turner and Little convince the detectives that the real murderers are still at large and they want to stage a reenactment of the program that led to the murder, under the ruse that they true killer will be revealed at the end of the program.

A spy who was using the radio station to transmit information to his cohorts hears about these plans and attends the broadcast. It turns out that the spy (Don Porter) murdered the Colonel and his physician because they found out about his transmissions. During the reenactment, he is discovered to be the killer and escapes to the roof. Once there, Larkin and Milgrim capture him.

[edit] Trivia

After completion of this film, Abbott and Costello began a tour of the United States to help promote the selling of U.S. War Bonds.
It was re-released in 1949 with Keep 'Em Flying, and in 1954 with Ride 'Em Cowboy.

[edit] DVD Release

February 10, 2004

[edit] External link

Who Done It? at the Internet Movie Database

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Abbott and Costello

One Night in the Tropics • Buck Privates • In The Navy • Hold That Ghost • Keep 'Em Flying • Ride 'Em Cowboy • Rio Rita • Pardon My Sarong • Who Done It? • It Ain't Hay • Hit The Ice • In Society • Lost in a Harem • Here Come The Co-Eds • The Naughty Nineties • Abbott and Costello in Hollywood • Little Giant • The Time of Their Lives • Buck Privates Come Home • The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap • The Noose Hangs High • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein • Mexican Hayride • Africa Screams • Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff • Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion • Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man • Comin' Round The Mountain • Jack and the Beanstalk • Lost in Alaska • Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd • Abbott and Costello Go to Mars • Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops • Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy • Dance With Me Henry • The World of Abbott and Costello

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