Whistling in the Dark (1933) (MOD) "The Riddler" Mint juleps and chicory coffee

Mint juleps and chicory coffee

In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history

Don Knotts and Cloris Leachman

the Maverick brothers would return

But things are about get more complicated for Tom and Doris as two different Jane Turners come calling

Whistling in the Dark (1933) (MOD) "The Riddler" Mint juleps and chicory coffeeWhen car trouble stalls his elopement, mystery writer Wally Porter ("Crime is my racket," he declares) doesn't know he's sharing drinks with gangsters who want to rub out a defiant brewer who won't pay for "protection." After he boasts he's "probably the world's greatest living authority on murder," timid Wally and his flirty fiance become hesitant hostages in homicide planning. If the title and the premise are more familiar via its zippy 1941 remake