Monday, October 24, 2011

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)




Starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, George Chandler, Fritz Feld, Ann Rutherford, and Thurston Hall. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. A mousy proofreader for a magazine publisher is incapable of standing up for himself. As he muses over the lurid covers of the magazines put out by his firm, he retreats into his fantasy world, where he is heroic, poised, self-assured, and the master of his fate. Glancing at the cover of a western periodical, he fancies himself the two-gun "Perth Amboy Kid"; a war magazine prompts him to envision himself as a fearless RAF pilot; and so on.

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