One Body Too Many

Director: Frank McDonald Frank McDonald

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/29/2017
UPC:	0889290261526
Original Release:	1944
Source:	Film Detective
Language:	English
Time:	1:15:00
Sales rank:	43,830

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean Parker	Carole Dunlap
Bela Lugosi	Merkil
Blanche Yurka	Matthews
Bernard Nedell	Atty. Gellman
Douglas Fowley	Henry Rutherford
Dorothy Granger	Mona
Lyle Talbot	Jim Davis
Lucien Littlefield	Kenneth
Fay Helm	Estelle
Maxine Fife	Margaret
William Edmunds	the Professor
Jack Haley Jr.	Albert Tuttle

Technical Credits

Frank McDonald	Director
William H. Pine	Producer
William C. Thomas	Producer