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Business Trip. In Gaffney, S.C., Markie Bellew, arrested for assault & battery, escaped from the county jail, hiked 20 miles to Spartanburg, returned next day with a bondsman who bailed...
...balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled in black. As the trumpeters blurted a brassy fanfare, Britain's Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards and cockaded hats and bearing staffs of gold, silver and ebony - stepped forward and raised a huge parchment...
Besides being a brilliant comic entertainer, Kaye has considerable talent as a straight actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...Night Watchman F. L. Bellew flattened himself on the sidewalk beside the post office, watched the sky narrowly, longed for his high-powered rifle...
...tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann Strauss playing his Blue Danube for the Emperor. Worst comedy sequence: members of Bellew's Band wriggling around in a trained seal act in which they shockingly resemble a familiar type of paralytic...