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Wonder Man

Wonder Man

Comedy · Fantasy · Music · 1945

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

Movie details

Wonder Man

“It's Gala-Gala with Girls, Gaiety and that Goldwyn Glamour!”

1945 Comedy · Fantasy · Music 1h 38m

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TMDB

6.6 / 10

Community rating

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

H. Bruce Humberstone

Written by

Don Hartman · Melville Shavelson · Philip Rapp

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Edwin Dingle / Buzzy Bellew

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Ellen Shanley

Vera-Ellen

Vera-Ellen

Midge Mallon

Donald Woods

Donald Woods

Monte Rossen

S.Z. Sakall

S.Z. Sakall

Schmidt

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins

Chimp

Edward Brophy

Edward Brophy

Torso

Court is in session

Put Wonder Man on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.