Word: zucco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for. Bob is a disc jockey for dog food (with appropriate yips) who is sought out as the morganatic heir to a Graustarkian throne. Signe Hasso, the kingdom's military genius despite her sex, is trying to get him crowned; an assortment of statesmanlike heavies (George Zucco, et al.) are trying to get him conked; his fiancée, and her six policemen brothers are trying to get him to his wedding...
...whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic checks in disappearing...