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Groucho as Sam Grunion, astigmatic private eye, narrates the story. Fabulously valuable hot diamonds are accidentally stolen by a kleptomaniac tramp (Harpo) on a foraging trip for a group of starving young actors. The seductive Madame Egelinka (Ilona Massey) and her two musclebound minions try to recover the jewels from Harpo throughout the rest of the picture while Chico, a piano-playing mind reader wanders aimlessly about complicating things...
...drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...posting bills, provided he can supply his own bicycle. To get the bicycle, his wife has to sell the family's sheets. During the first day on his new job the bicycle is stolen. The rest of the film follows the worker and his young son as they tramp through the streets of Rome in a futile search...
...problem the nation's Joint Chiefs of Staff, freshly returned from an inspection of U.S. bases in the Far East, had to face up to energetically. The nation needed defenses at home (e.g., radar screens and other precautions against surprise attacks by planes, submarines or even tramp steamers carrying H-bombs). The armed services, dangerously weakened by the Administration's foolish economy policies in national defense, still had to be built into a force capable of surviving the first blow and retaliating swiftly and strongly-even if it meant spending less money on social services that normally would...
Take Denmark, suggested Professor Urey. If Russia wanted to persuade Denmark to resign from the North Atlantic pact, he said, it could simply slip a tramp ship into Copenhagen harbor with an a-bomb in the hold. At the right psychological moment, the word could be passed to the Danes at their capital was on the verge of being blown up. "If this sort of thing happens in Europe," said Urey, "it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep these people in the Atlantic pact and there will be perhaps a serious move to alienate the members . . . before this...