Who Done It? (1942 film)

"Hey, do you know there's a couple of soda jerks around here playing detective?"
"G'wan! Don't you know it's against the law to impersonate an officer?"
"Well, then how do you get away with it?"

Who Done It? is a 1942 film about two aspiring mystery writer become involved with a real murder case.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Written by Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, and John Grant.

Mervin Q. Milgrim

• [reading from radio script] The title of this story is---"The Midget Gets The Chair",or "Small Fry"!

Dialogue

Chick Larkin: [about Juliet Collins] She's only got a couple of buck teeth.

Mervin Q. Milgrim: Why do I care what she paid for them?

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Customer: What happened to my strawberry sundae?

Mervin Q. Milgrim: What's today?

Customer: Friday.

Mervin Q. Milgrim: You've got two more days to wait.

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Mervin Q. Milgrim: [nauseous] I gotta go back upstairs and get something...

Chick Larkin: What have you gotta get?

Mervin Q. Milgrim: My stomach...

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Wiseguy Kid Usher: Hey, do you know there's a couple of soda jerks around here playing detective?

Detective Brannigan: G'wan! Don't you know it's against the law to impersonate an officer?

Wiseguy Kid Usher: Well, then how do you get away with it?

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Chick Larkin: If we solve this case, the public will be begging for "MUCK AND MIRE'.

Mervin Q. Milgrim: And the murderer gets us, we'll do plenty of begging, too!

Cast

• Bud Abbott — Chick Larkin
• Lou Costello — Mervin Q. Milgrim
• Patric Knowles — Jimmy Turner
• William Gargan — Police Lt. Lou Moran
• Louise Allbritton — Jane Little
• Thomas Gomez — Col. J.R. Andrews
• William Bendix — Detective Brannigan
• Don Porter — Art Fraser
• Jerome Cowan — Marco Heller
• Mary Wickes — Juliet Collins
• Ludwig Stössel — Dr. Anton Marek

External links

• Who Done It? quotes at the Internet Movie Database