1947 · samuel-goldwyn · kaye · fantasy
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod1h 50m1947
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Our read: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive samuel-goldwyn · kaye · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle samuel-goldwyn / kaye, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- funny
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