The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
"A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!"
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 82%
(RT: 82%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Danny Kaye as Walter Mitty
Virginia Mayo as Rosalind van Hoorn
Fay Bainter as Mrs. Mitty
Ann Rutherford as Gertrude Griswold
Thurston Hall as Bruce Pierce
Gordon Jones as Tubby Wadsworth
Florence Bates as Mrs. Griswold
Is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 143 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 82%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
