Third Dimensional Murder
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| Third Dimensional Murder | |
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| Directed by | George Sidney |
| Written by | Jerry Hoffman |
| Produced by | Pete Smith |
| Starring | Pete Smith Ed Payson |
| Narrated by | Pete Smith |
| Cinematography | Walter Lundin (director of photography) B.C. Parker (camera operator) |
| Edited by | Phillip W. Anderson |
| Music by | David Snell (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Third Dimensional Murder (also known as Murder in 3-D) is a 3D short comedy film produced and narrated by Pete Smith and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941. It is the last of the Audioscopiks 3D short film series, after Audioscopiks (1936) and The New Audioscopiks (1938).
Pete Smith tells his harrowing story of one evening at midnight being alerted by a telephone call from his Aunt Tilly in distress at the old deserted Smith mansion. The man drove the two hours to the isolated mansion to find that it was haunted by various creatures after him. Smith is attacked by a witch, a skeleton, an Indian warrior, an archer, and Frankenstein's monster (Ed Payson). The latter character was specifically modeled after Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein. The question becomes how the man escapes and saves his aunt... if he does indeed.