Opened by Mistake

IT'S A SHOWDOWN OF DOUGH FOR CHARLIE...and a Shower of Laffs for You and You and You!..when that old, forgotten trunk is...

Genres

ComedyMystery

OverView

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

66 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

10 May 1940

Country

United States of America

Cast

Charles Ruggles

Buzz Nelson

Janice Logan

Margaret Nichols

Robert Paige

Jimmie Daniels

William Frawley

Matt Kingsley

Florence Shirley

Elizabeth Stiles

Lawrence Grossmith

Jarvis Woodruff

Rafael Corio

Mr. Anthony DeBorest

Esther Dale

Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

James Burke

Police Sergeant Wilkins

Jack Norton

Al, the Bartender

A.S. Byron

Elderly Man (uncredited)

Lloyd Corrigan

Anton Zarecki (uncredited)

Sarah Edwards

Mrs. Karff (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Roger Weatherby (uncredited)

Stanley Price

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Similar Movies

6.1

Top Five

December 2014 •English

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.

0.0

There Goes My Girl

May 1937 •English

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

6.3

Critters 2

April 1988 •English

Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.

7.3

The Passenger

February 1975 •Italian

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.

6.8

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

November 2006 •English

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

7.5

Zodiac

March 2007 •English

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

0.0

Conversation with the Beast

February 1997 •German

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.

6.2

The Mothman Prophecies

January 2002 •English

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

6.4

27 Dresses

January 2008 •English

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

6.0

Celebrity

September 1998 •English

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.

5.5

I Love Trouble

June 1994 •English

Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.

6.9

The Frighteners

July 1996 •English

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

6.3

Hero

October 1992 •English

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.

5.9

Die Musterknaben 2

March 1999 •German

A new case for "The Model Boys": The two Cologne commissioners Docker and Dretzke to take the next 14 days a journalist to their missions.

6.0

Doctor X

August 1932 •English

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

5.9

The Return of Doctor X

November 1939 •English

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

5.2

Prêt-à-Porter

December 1994 •English

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

0.0

Extra Extra

August 2022 •English

It's Junior Photographer Salmonella Sinclair's birthday and she only wants one thing- photographic proof of extraterrestrials. What lengths will she go to, along with her mirror-companion, Kitty, to achieve this goal? One ill-fated tour guide is about to find out.

0.0

All I Want for Christmas is Mothman!

December 2022 •English

Sally Sinclair is at it again, with her nemesis, Prunella Peabody, hot on her heels in the pursuit of photographic proof of the elusive Mothman. Will their bitter rivalry and insatiable ambition lead them to fortune and glory, or deadly consequences?

7.7

Deep Red

March 1975 •Italian

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.