Alicia I love this movie so much

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Claudio Carvalho In New York, the clumsy Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce (Thurston Hall). He lives with his overprotective and abusive mother (Fay Bainter) and neither his fiancée Gertrude Griswold (Ann Rutherford) and her mother (Florence Bates) nor his best friend Tubby Wadsworth (Gordon Jones) respects him. Walter is an escapist and daydreams into a world of fantasy many times along the day. When Walter is commuting, he stumbles in the train with the gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn (Virginia Mayo) that uses Walter to escape from her pursuer. Walter unintentionally gets involved with a dangerous ring of spies that are seeking a black book with notes about a hidden treasure."The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947) is a hilarious comedy about a clumsy daydreamer that gets into a dangerous ring of spies. Last Saturday I watched the annoying "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (2013) with Ben Stiller and I decided to seek the original 1947 movie that is better and better, with many gags. Danny Kaye is very funny performing the clumsy and coward Walter Mitty. Forget the 2013 remake and prefer to see the original 1947 comedy. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): Not Available

grantss The original, and best (the 2013 version doesn't come close). Great story, well told. What takes it to a new level, however, is the performance of Danny Kaye. He is superb in the role of Walter Mitty: hilariously funny, especially in the day dream skits. While the dialogue is incredibly sharp and funny, you can't imagine anyone else delivering the lines so incisively. His slapstick stuff is also something to behold.So funny and original you can actually see the influence (direct or otherwise) of Kaye's performance on acts like The Goon Show, Monty Python, Robin Williams, and even Michael Richards (esp as Kramer in Seinfeld). Rest of the cast put in solid performances. Virginia Mayo is particularly good, and beautiful, as Rosalind van Hoorn. However, the supporting cast are just the straight men to Kaye's antics. He IS the movie.Only negative is that it does get a bit too silly and farcical towards the end, in the real life parts. The day dream stuff is brilliant and there the movie doesn't put a single foot wrong.

Hot 888 Mama . . . or soccer games with Himalayan Sherpas in this early adaptation of the James Thurber short story, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (1947). Apparently, Mitty is in the eye of the beholder, and the producers of this flick wanted a cross between Harpo Marx and Gene Wilder's "Willie Wonka," as anachronistic as that may seem. Danny Kaye pushed their buttons, so we're treated to tongue-twisters, slapstick stumbling jags, and patter songs in lieu of big-budget travelogues, volcanic eruptions, and mountain skate boarding. Where the 2013 Ben Stiller remake relies on stunning visuals, while occasionally being plagued by Non Sequitar groaners (such as the ludicrous BENJAMIN BUTTON spoof), this original from the 1940s has a plot featuring four actual "plotters" (though the ultimate goal of these knock-out drug-wielding kidnappers is much murkier than that of the similar gang in Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST). Seeing Frankenstein's monster playing a shrink will be a hoot for many, though Boris Karloff is cast here as a fake psychiatrist (who tosses Mitty out of a high-rise office window!). Don't limit yourself to one Walter; as they say, "the more the Mittier."

Spikeopath The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Norman Z. McLeod and adapted loosely to screenplay by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman from the short story of the same name written by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Konstantin Shayne and Gordon Jones. A Technicoor production with music by Sylvia Fine (songs) and David Raskin (score) and cinematography by Lee Garmes.Milquetoast Walter Mitty (Kaye) escapes the incessant needling of those around him by dreaming up exciting adventures for himself. Upon meeting gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn (Mayo) he gets thrust into a real adventure involving Dutch treasure, but this is real stuff and his life is under threat!A lovely Danny Kaye vehicle full of neatly constructed comedy, pleasant tunes and Technicolor supreme. It's too long at ten minutes shy of two hours, and non Kaye fans are unlikely to be converted, but for the fans this is a delightful way to spend an afternoon as the spy plot unfolds in a whirl of energised malarkey. Karloff a bonus as well. 7/10