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Behind the Eight Ball

4.7 60 mins Music   Comedy   1942
Universal Pictures  
Director(s): Edward F. Cline

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.

Casts of Behind the Eight Ball

Al Ritz

as Al Jester

Jimmy Ritz

as Jimmy Jester

Harry Ritz

as Harry Jester

Carol Bruce

as Joan Barry

Dick Foran

as Bill Edwards

Grace McDonald

as Babs

Johnny Downs

as Danny

William Demarest

as McKenzie

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