Paramount Pictures
Directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Olive Films)
Uneven Danny Kaye vehicle swerves between comedy, romance and spy thriller. Kaye is a ventriloquist, and in some initial painful scenes has problems controlling his dummy, who ruins his relationships with women. He goes to Zurich to seek help, but unknowingly brings along stolen missile plans hidden in the dummy by spies. Meanwhile, he falls in love with his psychoanalyst, the lovely Mai Zetterling. They flee to London, where more spies chase him around trying to recover the missing papers. A long detour into a Russian ballet production provides occasional laughs. However, the external shots in London use an obvious double for Kaye and almost ruin it.
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