One Body Too Many
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| Directed by | Frank McDonald |
| Produced by | William H. Pine William C. Thomas |
| Written by | Winston Miller Maxwell Shane |
| Starring | Jack Haley Jean Parker Maxine Fife Bela Lugosi |
| Music by | Alexander Laszlo |
| Cinematography | Fred Jackman Jr. |
| Edited by | Henry Adams |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
One Body Too Many is a 1944 comedy-mystery film directed by Frank McDonald, starring Bela Lugosi and Jack Haley.
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Plot
A timid insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) visits eccentric millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford, intent on selling him a $200,000 insurance deal. Instead he finds that Rutherford has recently died and his mansion is now full of relatives who are, according to the will, all bound to remain in the mansion until a glass-domed vault is constructed on the roof, to house the deceased millionaire who was an ardent follower of the stars. Tuttle is mistaken for a private detective sent to guard the body, and once the confusion is cleared up and the real detective fails to show, he is convinced by Rutherford's niece Carol Dunlap (Jean Parker) to remain and ensure that the body is not stolen. If the body should be buried any place other than the vault, the will states that recipients who would receive the largest request will receive the smallest, and vice versa. One of the recipients plans to reverse the will in their favor, hide the body and kill anyone who gets in their way. Unfortunately for mild-mannered Tuttle, he is directly in the way of the killer, and the rest of the conniving family.
Cast
- Jack Haley as Albert L. Tuttle
- Jean Parker as Carol Dunlap
- Bela Lugosi as Merkil
- Blanche Yurka as Matthews
- Lyle Talbot as Jim Davis
- Douglas Fowley as Henry Rutherford
- Fay Helm as Estelle Hopkins
- Bernard Nedell as Attorney Morton Gellman
- Lucien Littlefield as Kenneth Hopkins
- Dorothy Granger as Mona Rutherford
- Maxine Fife as Margaret Hopkins
See also
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). One Body Too Many at IMDb
- One Body Too Many is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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