CRACKUP

Crack-Up

Crack-Up is a 1946 film noir directed by Irving Reis, remembered for directing many "Falcon" movies of the early 1940s including The Falcon Takes Over. The drama is based on "Madman's Holiday", a short-story written by mystery writer Fredric Brown. The drama features Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, and others.

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crack up

Verb

  1. To laugh heartily.
    It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time.
  2. To cause to laugh heartily
    The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.
  3. To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.
    She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died.


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