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Over My Dead Body

Over My Dead Body

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 15, 1942

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Mystery, Comedy

Original Title

Over My Dead Body

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

Malcolm St. Clair

Description

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.