The Secret Life of Walter Mitty poster
Director Norman Z. McLeod
Screenplay Everett Freeman, Ken Englund

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Tagline: A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!

Release Date: 1947-09-01

Duration: 110 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Robert Altman
    Man Drinking (uncredited)
  • Danny Kaye
    Walter Mitty
  • Boris Karloff
    Dr. Hugo Hollingshead
  • Hank Worden
    Western Character (uncredited)
  • Dorothy Granger
    Wrong Mrs. Follinsbee (uncredited)
  • Bess Flowers
    Illustrator (uncredited)
  • Thurston Hall
    Bruce Pierce
  • Doris Lloyd
    Mrs. Follinsbee
  • Reginald Denny
    Colonel
  • Konstantin Shayne
    Peter van Hoorn