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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by Creator/JamesThurber's [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure.
''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by Creator/JamesThurber's [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by Creator/JamesThurber's [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure.
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* SouthernGentleman: Gaylord Mitty in the riverboat gambler sequence.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: The onomatopoeic "ta-pocketa," which threads its way through many of Mitty's daydreams (e.g. as the sound of a machine in an operating theater).
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Mitty as a grizzled sea captain has "only a broken arm" while piloting a ship through a terrible storm.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty James Thurber's short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by Creator/JamesThurber's [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty James Thurber's short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure.
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The story was also adapted to film [[Film/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty in 2013, starring Ben Stiller]].
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* LostHimInACardGame: In the riverboat gambling fantasy, Gaylord Mitty's opponent tries to stake his fiancee, whom he knows Mitty is in love with, in a card game after losing the plantation deed he'd cheated the girl's father out of. Gaylord is unable to hold a lady to such a bargain, so the man proposes that he'll "[[LoserLeavesTown go North]]" if he loses.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy film starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty James Thurber's short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure. Unlike in the original story, the film's Mitty gets to live out a real heroic adventure when he gets tangled in a search for a treasure misplaced during World War II.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy comedy-fantasy film directed by Norman Z. [=McLeod=] and starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty James Thurber's short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure. adventure.
Unlike in the original story, the film's Mitty gets to live out a real heroic adventure when he gets tangled in a search for a treasure misplaced during World WarII.
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Unlike in the original story, the film's Mitty gets to live out a real heroic adventure when he gets tangled in a search for a treasure misplaced during World War
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** Possibly justified in that as an American Walter might not be familiar with RAF ranks and his imagination assumes that they are the same as those in the USAF.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In one of the fantasy sequences, set on a British airbase, Mitty addresses a Royal Air Force officer as "Colonel"; there is no such rank in the RAF, where the equivalent rank is "Group Captain". Incidentally, the officer is wearing the rank insignia of an Air Vice-Marshall, equivalent to a Lieutenant-General in the Army, while Mitty, supposedly a Squadron-Leader, equivalent to an Army Captain, is dressed as a Group Captain.
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* Notable goof: in one of the fantasy sequences, set on a British airbase, Mitty addresses a Royal Air Force officer as "Colonel"; there is no such rank in the RAF. The equivalent rank is "Group Captain". Incidentally, the officer is wearing the rank insignia of an Air Vice-Marshall, equivalent to a Lieutenant-General in the Army, while Mitty, supposedly a Squadron-Leader, equivalent to an Army Captain, is dressed as a Group Captain.
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* Notable goof: in one of the fantasy sequences, set on a British airbase, Mitty addresses a Royal Air Force officer as "Colonel"; there is no such rank in the RAF. The equivalent rank is "Group Captain". Incidentally, the officer is wearing the rank insignia of an Air Vice-Marshall, equivalent to a Lieutenant-General in the Army, while Mitty, supposedly a Squadron-Leader, equivalent to an Army Captain, is dressed as a Group Captain.
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* AdaptationExpansion: As was probably inevitable when trying to make a two-hour film out of a story a few pages long about a man going shopping.
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* MrMuffykins: Queenie, who sits in a high chair to eat, wears a bib, and barks whenever the main character moves.
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''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' is a 1947 comedy film starring Creator/DannyKaye, inspired by [[Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty James Thurber's short story]] about an inconsequential and put-upon man who escapes into daydreams of heroic adventure. Unlike in the original story, the film's Mitty gets to live out a real heroic adventure when he gets tangled in a search for a treasure misplaced during World War II.
!!This film provides examples of:
* CampGay: "Anatole of Paris", the fashion designer in one of Mitty's daydreams.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Walter Mitty's boss repeatedly claims all of Mitty's ideas as something he'd already been planning.
* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Obliquely referenced in which one of Walter's magazine stories features a vampire that got staked early in the serial, but returns because the villagers pierced his left lung, not his heart.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: A not-insignificant part of the film is made up of these, with Mitty slipping into various Fantasy segues ranging from murders and high adventure to a musical number where he plays a Camp Gay fashion designer.
* MrImagination: Walter Mitty.
* MrMuffykins: Queenie, who sits in a high chair to eat, wears a bib, and barks whenever the main character moves.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* CampGay: "Anatole of Paris", the fashion designer in one of Mitty's daydreams.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Walter Mitty's boss repeatedly claims all of Mitty's ideas as something he'd already been planning.
* HeartInTheWrongPlace: Obliquely referenced in which one of Walter's magazine stories features a vampire that got staked early in the serial, but returns because the villagers pierced his left lung, not his heart.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: A not-insignificant part of the film is made up of these, with Mitty slipping into various Fantasy segues ranging from murders and high adventure to a musical number where he plays a Camp Gay fashion designer.
* MrImagination: Walter Mitty.
* MrMuffykins: Queenie, who sits in a high chair to eat, wears a bib, and barks whenever the main character moves.
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