Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Bud Abbott
as Chick Larkin
Lou Costello
as Mervin Q. Milgrim
Patric Knowles
as Jim Turner
Louise Allbritton
as Jane Little
Mary Wickes
as Juliet Collins
William Gargan
as Detective Inspector Lou
William Bendix
as Detective Sgt. Brannigan
Thomas Gomez
as Col. J.R. Andrews
Ludwig Stössel
as Dr. Anton Marek
Edmund MacDonald
as 'Murder at Midnight' Announcer
Jerome Cowan
as Heller
Walter Tetley
as 'Shorty', a studio pageboy