7.2
Slumberland
2022
A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!
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.
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.
Danny KayeWalter Mitty
Virginia MayoRosalind van Hoorn
Boris KarloffDr. Hollingshead
Fay BainterMrs. Mitty
Ann RutherfordGertrude Griswold
Thurston HallBruce Pierce
Gordon JonesTubby Wadsworth
Florence BatesMrs. Griswold
Konstantin ShaynePeter van Hoorn
Reginald DennyColonel
Henry CordenHendrick
Doris LloydMrs. Follinsbee
Fritz FeldAnatole
Frank ReicherMaasdam
Milton ParsonsButler
Eddie AcuffWells Fargo Cowboy (uncredited)
Robert AltmanMan Drinking (uncredited)
Billy BletcherWestern Character (uncredited)
Betty BlytheFloor Manager (uncredited)
Jack GarganPhotographer (uncredited)
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I wake up dreaming. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Norman Z. McLeod and adapted loosely to screenplay by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman from the short story of the same name written by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Konstantin Shayne and Gordon Jones. A Technicoor production with music by Sylvia Fine (songs) and David Raskin (score) and cinematography by Lee Garmes. Milquetoast Walter Mitty (Kaye) escapes the incessant needling of those around him by dreaming up exciting adventures for himself. Upon meeting gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn (Mayo) he gets thrust into a real adventure involving Dutch treasure, but this is real stuff and his life is under threat! A lovely Danny Kaye vehicle full of neatly constructed comedy, pleasant tunes and Technicolor supreme. It's too long at ten minutes shy of two hours, and non Kaye fans are unlikely to be converted, but for the fans this is a delightful way to spend an afternoon as the spy plot unfolds in a whirl of energised malarkey. Karloff a bonus as well. 7/10
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