Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released May 18, 1946
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Republic Studios
67 min. (Feature Film)
67 min. (Feature Film)
Amateur sleuth Johnny Fletcher (Albert Dekker) and his hulkish assistant Sam Cragg (Mike Mazurki) find a dead man in their hotel room. The corpse was the watchman for Walter Winslow's Nevada desert gold mine, and in his dead grasp was a rare gold coin. Fletcher is the prime suspect in the murder, and when he sets out to clear his name and find the killer, he and Sam become mixed up in a scheme involving the hording of gold coins, and a beautiful girl (Evelyn Ankers) who may know more than she thinks.
Joe DeRita costars as Detective Fox, a bumbling policeman sent to trail Fletcher and Cragg.
Avg. Rating: 
[5.00/10]
[5.00/10]
Albert Dekker
Johnny Fletcher
Evelyn Ankers
Janet Morgan
Mike Mazurki
Sam Cragg
John Eldredge
John Holterman
Joe DeRita
Det. Fox
Alan Ward
Inspector Madigan
Archie Twitchell
D. A. Murdock
Walter Soderling
George Polson
Selmer Jackson
Walter Winslow
Marjorie Manners
Betty Winslow
Byron Foulger
Mr. Peabody
Frank Fenton
Horatio Vedder
David Gorcey
Eddie Miller
Sammy Stein
Percy
Hugh Prosser
Swede
Emmett Vogan
Desk clerk
Richard Arlen
Himself
Frank Moran
Mug listening to Sam's story
Walter Colmes
Director
Walter Colmes
Associate Producer
Frank Gruber
Novel
Frank Gruber
Screenplay
Jockey Arthur Feindel
Photography
Robert Jahns
Film Editor
Sydney Moore
Set Decoration
Frank T. Dyke
Sound
Alexander Laszlo
Musical Score
Bartlett A. Carre
Production Manager
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