IT'S IN THE BAG

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• Release Year: 1945
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Based on the popular Russian novel, The Twelve Chairs, an old tycoon decides to leave his fortune to his only living heir, Fred Floogle (Fred Allen), a flea circus impresario, but the tycoon's crooked attorney (John Carradine) and his old business partners kill the man and frame Fred for the murder. Fred discovers that part of the money and evidence clearing him is stuffed in one of the chairs he ended up selling in an auction to different buyers. The rest of the film goes off on any number of hilarious tangents, each tied-in ever so tenuous-y to the plot. The incredible cast includes comedy and screen legends Robert Benchley as Fred's pompous in-law-to-be, Jerry Colonna as Fred's live-in psychiatrist and Charlie Chan himself, Sidney Toler as a popcorn-munching detective on Fred's tail—with guest-star appearances by Jack Benny Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore and Rudy Vallee. Directed by Richard Wallace (The Fallen Sparrow).
• Cast: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore, Rudy Vallee, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley, Jerry Colonna, John Carradine, Gloria Pope, William Terry, Minerva Pious, Richard Tyler, Sidney Toler, George Cleveland, John Miljan, Ben Welden, Johnny Arthur, Jack Baxley, Brooks Benedict, Don Brodie, Steve Brodie, John Brown, George Chandler, Don Costello, Kernan Cripps, Jay Eaton, Bess Flowers, Byron Foulger, Edward Gargan, Jack Gargan, Frank Hagney, Harry Harvey, Olin Howland, Lloyd Ingraham, Eddie Kane, Kenner G. Kemp, Mike Lally, Rex Lease, Mary Livingstone, Harold Miller, Bert Moorhouse, Horace Murphy, Forbes Murray, Roger Neury, Sarah Padden, Emory Parnell, Marshall Reed, Dewey Robinson, Matty Roubert, Harry Semels, Dan Seymour, Larry Steers, Harry Strang, Charles Sullivan, Phil Tead, Walter Tetley, Emmett Vogan, Harry von Zell, Max Wagner, Doodles Weaver, Dave Willock, Marek Windheim, Richard Wallace, Lewis R. Foster, Jay Dratler, Alma Reville, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov, Morrie Ryskind
• Director: Richard Wallace
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Olive Films
• Media Format: Movie