- HD 1080
- Runtime: 60m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Edward F. Cline
- Stars: Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Carol Bruce, Dick Foran
- keywords: show business, musical
- Production_studio: Universal Pictures
- Slogan: FUN STARS ! TUNE-STARS! LOVE-STARS! Hep-steppers and Happy Honeys!
- The Behind the Eight Ball is featured in the top rankings of 1942
- #70 in Top Comedy Movies of 1942
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.