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Stop, You're Killing Me

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Stop, You're Killing Me
1953 Theatrical Poster
Directed byRoy Del Ruth
Written byDamon Runyon (play)
Howard Lindsay (play)
James O'Hanlon
StarringBroderick Crawford
CinematographyTed D. McCord
Edited byOwen Marks
Music byDavid Buttolph
Ray Heindorf
Howard Jackson
Production
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Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • December 10, 1952 (1952-12-10) (New York City)
  • January 17, 1953 (1953-01-17) (General release)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Stop, You're Killing Me is a 1952 American black comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor and Virginia Gibson.[1]

The film is set shortly after the Repeal of Prohibition in the United States (1933). A former rum-runner attempts to operate a legitimate brewery, but is soon bankrupt due to poor sales. He has to deal with several personal and professional problems at the same time, including his daughter's engagement to a police officer.

Plot

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When the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution is repealed, former prohibition baron Remy Marko ventures into the legal production and marketing of beer. The poor quality of his product leads him to bankruptcy.

His daughter Mary intends to marry policeman Chance Whitelaw, heir to a wealthy family. Remy and his wife Nora organize a lavish reception at a fancy hotel in Saratoga, but the party is disrupted by the murder of four gangsters at the hands of a mobster who works for Remy's creditors. Remy must juggle his family, his daughter's future marriage, his bankrupt business and the police investigation in order to save his new image.

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Production

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The script is based on the 1935 play A Slight Case of Murder by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay. Warner Bros. had previously adapted Runyon and Lindsay's play into a 1938 film under the play's title starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by Lloyd Bacon.

The film was in production from mid-June to late August 1952.

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