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...Favorite Brunette. Bob Hope playing a private eye, mostly in the direction of Dorothy Lamour (TIME, March...
...Favorite Brunette. Bob Hope playing a Private Eye, mostly in the direction of Dorothy Lamour (TIME, March...
Hero Bob Hope, a baby photographer with delusions of courage, is minding the office one day for a private detective neighbor when a beautiful adventuress named Dorothy Lamour comes in, mistakes him for the detective and engages him to find her kidnapped uncle. From there, the action leads through various typically Chandlerian hangouts-one of those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle...
...Miss Lamour changes clothes, to good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
...stock role, that of a baby-photographer playing at private detective, and he soon is immersed in the usual welter of ominous looking crooks, one of whom inevitably turns out to be Peter Lorre. Tossing gags to the winds, Hope spends the greater part of the picture chasing Dorothy Lamour, who plays a foreign baroness of some kind, though she seems to lose her accent after the first reel. Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little...