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Who Done It? Overview:

Who Done It? (1942) was a Comedy - Mystery Film directed by Erle C. Kenton and produced by Alex Gottlieb.

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Who Done It? (1956)

By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 16, 2024 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Benny Hill done it, that's who! Before the famed English comedian made a name for himself on television as the star of The Benny Hill Show, he made this fast-moving farce playing a detective who sets out to capture enemy agents bent on destroying England with a weather-making machine. Hill stars as ... Read full article

Abbott and Costello Films: Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, Who Done It?

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 4, 2023 From 4 Star Films

Service comedies almost feel like a rite of passage for comedy teams, and it’s no different with this early success from Abbott and Costello. Against their hijinks, there’s a blatantly obvious love triangle (Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee, and Alan Curtis) meant to lend some balance to the dram... Read full article

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Who Done It? Quotes:

Mervin Q. Milgrim: I've seen better heads on malted milks.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: [nauseous] I gotta go back upstairs and get something...
Chick Larkin: What have you gotta get?
Mervin Q. Milgrim: My stomach...
Chick Larkin: [talking about Juliet Collins] So she has a couple of buck teeth.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: I don't care how much they cost.
Customer: What happened to my strawberry sundae?
Mervin Q. Milgrim: What's today?
Customer: Friday.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: You've got two more days to wait.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: [Mervin and Chick and performing their radio play for Juliet, Mervin's holding a gun on Chick] Bang! Ow! Bang! Ow! Bang! Ow!
Juliet Collins: Wait a minute, if you're shooting at him
[Chick]
Juliet Collins: , then why are you yelling?
Mervin Q. Milgrim: I'm holding the gun backwards!
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Who Done It? Facts
During the scene in which Lou Costello is "interrogating" the radio show cast, he blurts out the question, "Where were you on the night of January 16th?". This is reference to the famous Broadway play of the same name by Ayn Rand, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher who wrote "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". "The Night of January 16th" was also made into a movie in 1941.
The "watts-volts" routine was not in the script. It was created by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on the set.
This was the first Bud Abbott and Lou Costello film that did not contain musical numbers. As a result, it was shortest film that they had made to date.
As part of a display on telephones and communication, the Smithsonian Institute used a clip of Lou Costello trying to call in for the radio contest to demonstrate the mechanics of placing a call with an operator-run exchange.
Radio actor Walter Tetley, who plays the elevator operator who perpetually gets the best of Lou Costello in this film, would go on to become the voice of "Sherman" in the "Mr. Peabody" cartoons in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
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