Slightly Dangerous (1943) on Netflix
Soda jerk Peggy Evans runs away to New York City, where a falling paint can leaves her taken for an amnesia victim. She passes herself off as Carol Burden, a missing heiress.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.7/10997 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Plot summary
Peggy Evans, twenty-one, is bored with her job as a soda jerk in Hotchkiss Falls, New York. After the store's new general manager, Bob Stuart, reprimands her, she leaves a note at her boardinghouse that reads as a suicide note and disappears, and the town blames Bob. Peggy has gone to New York City, where she spends her savings on a makeover. A falling paint can knocks her unconscious outside a newspaper office, and the publisher, Durstin, assumes she has amnesia and prints her photograph. When Durstin jokes that she might be a kidnapped heiress, Peggy searches the paper's archives for missing persons and finds Carol Burden, a girl kidnapped seventeen years earlier and never found. Bob, fired from the store, sees the photograph and sets out to prove she is alive.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Buster Keaton served as an uncredited joke writer on the film, and is also alleged to have directed a scene in which Turner's character serves ice cream sundaes while blindfolded.
- Lana Turner was pregnant with her daughter at the time of production, but she did not disclose the pregnancy until after production had wrapped in December 1942.
