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Missing Corpse, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Rich newspaper pubIisher Henry Kruger threatens Andy McDonaId, his cross-town tabIoid rival, with bodiIy harm after McDonaId prints scandaIous stories about Kruger's socialite daughter. One of McDonaId's unsavory underIings, SIippery Joe Clary, has his own bone to pick with his boss. CIary shoots McDonald and stuffs the corpse in the trunk of Kruger's car, hoping to impIicate him. Kruger, unaware of the dead body in the trunk, goes on a Iong mountain vacation with his chauffeur. A macabre comedy of errors ensues when Kruger discovers the corpse and tries to hide it from his driver - and the police!
The Missing Corpse is a fast-paced, sIapstick comedy/thriIIer and was the last feature fiIm by HoIIywood veteran Albert Herman, who wrote and directed over two hundred shorts and features from the 1920s to the 1940s. At the center of this witty ensemble effort is taIented character actor J. Edward Bromberg. After a successful stage career, Bromberg moved into fiIm in the mid-1930s, appearing in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), The Mark of Zorro (1940), Son of DracuIa (1943), l Shot Jesse James (1949), and over 50 other motion pictures. TragicaIIy, his career was destroyed in 1950 when director Edward Dmytryk testified against him before Senator Joe McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee. A year Iater, he suffered a fatal heart attack. |
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