One Body Too Many (1944)
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Synopsis of One Body Too Many
Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit late, inasmuch as the owner has just kicked the bucket. The mansion is full of avaricious relatives, who are obliged by the dictates of the decedent's will to remain in the house until the authorities claim the body. Realizing that dead man's niece Carol (Jean Parker) is a damsel in all kinds of distress, Albert decides to stick around to keep Carol from meeting her uncle's fate. Though there's a murder-mystery angle in One Body too Many, the audience knows who didn't do it the moment Bela Lugosi shows up as a butler. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of One Body Too Many
- Jean Parker - Carol Dunlap
- Bernard Nedell - Atty. Gellman
- Douglas Fowley - Henry Rutherford
- Lyle Talbot - Jim Davis
- Fay Helm - Estelle
- William Edmunds - the Professor
- Bela Lugosi - Larchmont Butler
- Blanche Yurka - Matthews
- Dorothy Granger - Mona
- Lucien Littlefield - Kenneth
- Maxine Fife - Margaret
- Jack Haley - Albert Tuttle
- Director(s):
- Frank McDonald
- Writer(s):
- Maxwell Shane, Winston Miller
- Producer(s):
- William Pine, William C. Thomas
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