Over My Dead Body is a 1942 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair starring Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes and Reginald Denny. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

Jason Cordry (Milton Berle) is a mystery writer whose plots are so convoluted that even he cannot comprehend them, and they are often left uncompleted.

His sympathetic wife, Patricia (Mary Beth Hughes), thinks she has discovered a winning story when she overhears three men discussing plans for a criminal endeavor. Jason, willing to take a risk for a good plot, decides to confess to a murder he did not commit. He incorrectly assumes that he can easily prove his innocence once he has extracted a story from the experience. He is almost convicted of the homicide, but at the last moment he is exonerated. ^[3]

Cast

• Milton Berle as Jason Cordry
• Mary Beth Hughes as Patricia Cordry
• Reginald Denny as Richard 'Dick' Brenner
• Frank Orth as Detective
• William B. Davidson as Crole
• Wonderful Smith as Wonderful
• Pat O'Malley as Petie Stuyvesant
• Emory Parnell as Police Capt. Grady

Notes

References

• Dwyer, Ruth Anne. 1996. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948. The Scarecrow Press, Lantham, Md., and London. ISBN  0-8108-2709-3

External links

• Over My Dead Body at IMDb

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