

It's a Wonderful World
THE HAPPENINGS OF ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT!
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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- Language
- English
- escape
- police
- kidnapping
- detective
- romcom
- murder
- madcap comedy
- screwball comedy
- framed for a crime
- escaped prisoner
- framed for murder
- imminent execution
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- TheatricalNR19 May 1939
GermanyDE
- Theatrical19 May 1939
- TVARD12 May 1988
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It's a Wonderful World was released on 19 May 1939.
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CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
This is a cracking, quickly paced little comedy thriller with Claudette Colbert really on form as the rather dreamy poet who finds herself caught up in James Stewart's murder shenanigans. He is a PI whose wealthy pal is held for murder. When Stewart ("Johnson") is offered $100k to get to the bottom of it all, he tries to investigate, gets arrested, escapes from the cops into a river and alights on poor old "Edwina Co…
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