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Wonder Man
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
H. Bruce Humberstone
Casts & Crew
Danny Kaye
Virginia Mayo
Vera-Ellen
Donald Woods
S.Z. Sakall
Allen Jenkins
Edward Brophy
Steve Cochran
Otto Kruger
Richard Lane
Natalie Schafer
Huntz Hall
Virginia Gilmore
Edward Gargan
Alice Mock
Gisela Werbisek
Bess Flowers
Also Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
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