Whistling in Dixie

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Whistling in Dixie
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Produced by George Haight
Written by Nat Perrin
Wilkie C. Mahoney (additional dialogue, as Wilkie Mahoney)
Lawrence Hazard (uncredited)
Jonathan Latimer (uncredited)
Starring Red Skelton
Ann Rutherford
George Bancroft
Guy Kibbee
Music by Lennie Hayton
Cinematography Clyde De Vinna
Editing by Frank Sullivan
Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • December 1942 (1942-12)
Running time 74 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $388,000[1]
Box office $1,345,000[1]

Whistling in Dixie is a 1942 crime comedy film, the second of three starring Red Skelton as murder mystery writer and amateur crime solver Wally Benton (aka. The Fox) and Ann Rutherford as his fiancee. The pair are called upon to solve a crime in the American South. The film also re-introduces Rags Ragland, playing dual roles as twins, the mostly-reformed Chester, as well as his villainous brother from the first film. The film turns into a romantic comedy mystery, complete with death traps, corrupt politicians and lost gold, ending with a frenetic fight at the end between Wally Benton and both of Rags Ragland's characters.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $1,066,000 in the US and Canada and $279,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $542,000.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .

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