Having Wonderful Crime is a 1945 American screwball comedy and mystery film directed by Eddie Sutherland from a screenplay by Howard J.

Green, Stewart Sterling, and Parke Levy, based on the novel of the same name by Craig Rice.

Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it opened in New York City on April 12, 1945.

Michael J. Malone, a lawyer and detective, keeps getting drawn into the mischief of his recently married friends, Jake and Helene Justus.

The film opens as they run from the police and manage to hide in the theater of a magic show, where Movel, the magician, makes a disappearing act.

After Jake and Helene come searching for Malone, Winslow attempts to kill them too by trapping them in a boat while the exhaust fills the cabin.