Behind the Eight Ball

The name of this movie is Behind the Eight Ball released in 1942-12-04 and it's main theme is 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..