Behind the Eight Ball

• Movies
• 1942-12-04
• EN
• Released
• 1h 0m
• US
• Music - Comedy

• 4.7
• 3

Production

Universal Pictures

Tagline

FUN STARS ! TUNE-STARS! LOVE-STARS! Hep-steppers and Happy Honeys!

Storyline

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.