

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $956.6K
- Language
- English
- daydreaming
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Sept 1947
BrazilBR
- Theatricale 101 Jan 1948
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1215 Feb 1952
PortugalPT
- Theatricale 107 Feb 1948
SwedenSE
- Theatrical10 Nov 1947
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was released on 1 September 1947.
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John Chard
4/3/2020
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 R…
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