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Title: Who Killed Who? (1943)
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Cast
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Tex Avery | ... |
Santa Claus
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| Billy Bletcher | ... |
Detective /
Ghost
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| Richard Haydn | ... |
The Victim
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Robert Emmett O'Connor | ... |
Host
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A man is murdered, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's round the next corner... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
19 June 1943 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Qui a tue que? See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, through the medium of the animated cartoon, we present a murder mystery condensed from authentic criminal records. It is my sincere purpose in exposing the brutal killer in this horrible case to prove to you beyond the shadow of a doubt that crime does not pay. Our story opens on a dark and stormy night.
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The detective is modeled on veteran character actor Fred Kelsey, who specialized in playing dumb, bull-headed detectives. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, through the medium of the animated cartoon, we present a murder mystery condensed from authentic criminal records. It is my sincere purpose in exposing the brutal killer in this horrible case to prove to you beyond the shadow of a doubt that crime does not pay. Our story opens on a dark and stormy night.
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This is one of two shorts from 1943 that were included as special features on the DVD for "Presenting Lily Mars". Fortunately, many classic MGM films include a few such shorts--and in this case it's an MGM short from Tex Avery--and it doesn't usually get much better than that.
This cartoon is like a cheesy radio murder mystery in cartoon form. Billy Bletcher (with a wonderful gravely voice) and Richard Hyden are the two main voices--but Avery himself provides one of the voices as well (he's unbilled but plays Santa). While the humor isn't among Avery's best, it has a lot of the usual goofy touches--enough to make it worth seeing--even the bad jokes (like the Red Skeleton one).