Who Done It? (1942 film)



Who Done It? is a 1942 American film about two aspiring mystery writers who become involved with a real murder case.
 * Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Written by Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, and John Grant.

Mervin Q. Milgrim

 * [reading from radio script] The title of this story is---"The Midget Gets The Chair", or "Small Fry"!

Dialogue

 * Chick Larkin: [about Juliet Collins] She's only got a couple of buck teeth.
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: Why do I care what she paid for them?


 * 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: [nauseous] I gotta go back upstairs and get something...
 * Chick Larkin: What have you gotta get?
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: My stomach...


 * Col. J.R. Andrews: Mr. Turner, may I remind you that I have a contract for your services, and I intend to exercise it.
 * Jimmy Turner: You'll get plenty of exercise trying to find me.


 * Wiseguy Kid Usher: Hey, do you know there's a couple of soda jerks around here playing detective?
 * Detective Brannigan: G'wan! Don't you know it's against the law to impersonate an officer?
 * Wiseguy Kid Usher: Well, then how do you get away with it?


 * Chick Larkin: If we solve this case, the public will be begging for "MUCK AND MIRE'.
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: And if the murderer gets us, we'll do plenty of begging, too!


 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: Don't call me Blimp!
 * Detective Brannigan: Why not?
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: What makes a blimp go up?
 * Detective Brannigan: Hot air.
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: What's holding you down?


 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: I'm getting a lot of silly answers from this guy.
 * Chick Larkin: Well, grill him.
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: What?
 * Chick Larkin: Grill him.
 * Mervin Q. Milgrim: I'm not hungry!

Cast

 * Bud Abbott — Chick Larkin
 * Lou Costello — Mervin Q. Milgrim
 * Patric Knowles — Jimmy Turner
 * William Gargan — Police Lt. Lou Moran
 * Louise Allbritton — Jane Little
 * Thomas Gomez — Col. J.R. Andrews
 * William Bendix — Detective Brannigan
 * Don Porter — Art Fraser
 * Jerome Cowan — Marco Heller
 * Mary Wickes — Juliet Collins
 * Ludwig Stössel — Dr. Anton Marek