Everett Freeman — Playwright (8)

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The Chaser (1938)
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other title: Chasseurs d'accidents
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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other title: Ehrlich währt am längsten / A mí no me engaña nadie …
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
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other title: Miss Grain de sel / 痴鳳登龍
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
other title: 虹を掴む男 / Das Doppelleben des Herrn Mitty …
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
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海·艾弗巴克 actor: 多丽丝·黛 / 罗伯特·莫尔斯 …
other title: 停电时你在哪?
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter