WHISTLING IN THE DARK
(M.G.M.)
HIS re-make of a 1933-vintage talkie which starred the stage comedian Ernest Truex, launches the screen career of another
recruit from the stage, Red Skelton, who looks and acts rather like a slightly subdued version of Bob Hope. A farce about a radio crime expert called The Fox who.is kidnapped by a gang of fake evangelists (led by Conrad Veidt) and ordered to provide them with a detection-proof method of murdering a man in order to secure a rich inheritance, Whistling in the Dark is a moderately successful mixture of wisecracks, familiar gags, and rough-and-tumble among the trick paraphernalia and tough guys at the gangsters’ headquarters. It’s chief virtue is that it is much more lively at the end than at the beginning, so that one can go out into the blackout with a laugh.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 14
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140WHISTLING IN THE DARK New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 14
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