Whistling in the Dark (1933 film)

Whistling in the Dark (U.S. television title: Scared!) is a 1933 comedy crime film starring Ernest Truex as a murder mystery writer whose scheme for a perfect murder comes to the attention of a gangster, played by Edward Arnold, who decides to use it. The film is based on the 1932 Broadway play of the same name by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter.

Cast

• Ernest Truex as Wallace Porter
• Una Merkel as Toby Van Buren
• Edward Arnold as Jake Dillon
• John Miljan as Charlie Shaw
• C. Henry Gordon as Ricco Lombardo
• Johnny Hines as Slim Scanlon
• Joseph Cawthorn as Otto Barfuss
• Nat Pendleton as Joe Salvatore
• Tenen Holtz as Herman Lefkowitz
• Marcelle Corday as Hilda

External links

• Whistling in the Dark at the Internet Movie Database
• Whistling in the Dark at the TCM Movie Database