Paramount
Directed by Elliott Nugent
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(HD-DVD, BCI Eclipse)
Bob Hope spoofs the detective genre in this occasionally funny flick. He's a baby photographer with a studio next to the office of a noirish Sam McCloud. Mistaken for the real detective, he takes up the case of pretty Dorothy Lamour. This leads to a series of set pieces, such as a creepy mansion and a sanitarium, where Bob gets to zing his patented one-liners. I thought the funniest scene was at the sanitarium, where Bob plays a couple of holes of golf with a partner who as an invisible ball. There are some interesting cameos as well, the best saved for last.
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