The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty (1947)
Directed by Norman Z.
McLeod this film based on the short story of the same name stars
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff and Fay Bainter. A nervous,
downtrodden proof reader for a magazine publisher spends his days day
dreaming but has he been caught up in a real adventure?
The plot of this film
appears to depart fairly heavily from that of the short story it is
based on but in doing so I think it adds more depth to the story.
What this film does well is capture the difference between what we
fantasises about and how we would really react in those situations.
At times some of the fantasy sequences, especially the musical ones,
are a little long for my taste but otherwise this is a really well
made film with plenty of humour.
4/5
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