Behind the Eight Ball

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Behind the Eight Ball — Plot

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

• Release date
• December 4, 1942
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Music, Comedy
• Director
• Edward F. Cline

Behind the Eight Ball — Cast

Al Ritz Al Jester Jimmy Ritz Jimmy Jester Harry Ritz Harry Jester Carol Bruce Joan Barry Dick Foran Bill Edwards Grace McDonald Babs Johnny Downs Danny William Demarest McKenzie