It Happened One Knife — Jeffrey Cohen

Comedy Can Be Dead Funny

Elliot Freed couldn't be happier: His all-comedy movie theatre, Comedy Tonight, is newly refurbished; things with his ex-wife are looking up; he's even willing to screen his projectionist's film debut. But what really has Elliot walking on air is hosting the legendary duo, Lillis &Townes, at a special showing of their classic comedy Cracked Ice.

Nothing can bring Elliot down -- not a missing film, a bomb scare, or even a surly teenage girl. But when insinuations arise that one of his boyhood heroes may have been involved in a Hollywood murder decades earlier, Elliot crashes to earth. He sets out to discover the truth -- but finds that he may be on the killer's hit list...