Trading Places Trading Places Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel "The Prince and the Pauper". The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to
Going Places (1938 film) Creepers" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren won a "Best Song Oscar" nomination for "Jeepers Creepers." The song later would be sung in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "The Day of the Locust" (1975), "The Cheap Detective" (1978) and the horror thriller "Jeepers Creepers" (2001) directed by Victor Salva. Going Places (1938 film) Going Places is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales