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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
• Plot: Comedy legend Bob Hope (The Lemon Drop Kid) plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters in this bubbly slapstick comedy-noir. Ronnie Jackson (Hope) wants nothing more than to step into the gumshoes of office mate Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd, This Gun for Hire), a private investigator who runs his own detective agency. Jackson gets his big break when a mysterious femme fatale (Dorothy Lamour, Road to Rio, The Hurricane) strolls into McCloud s office and asks him to find her kidnapped uncle. Jackson plays along with the detective role but is soon in way over his head as he becomes embroiled in a dangerous plot involving professional killers. This spoof of the hardboiled detective genre also features horror legends Peter Lorre (Tales of Terror) and Lon Chaney Jr. (The Black Sleep) as two of Hope's villainous foils. Top-notch direction by Elliott Nugent (The Cat and the Canary, Nothing But the Truth) and beautiful black-and-white cinematography by Oscar-winner Lionel Lindon (The Manchurian Candidate, I Want to Live!).
• Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Charles Dingle, Reginald Denny, Frank Puglia, Ann Doran, Willard Robertson, Jack La Rue, Charles Arnt, Anthony Caruso, Jack Chefe, Jack Clifford, Charles Cooley, Bing Crosby, Boyd Davis, Tom Dillon, Mike Donovan, Helena Phillips Evans, Betty Farrington, Budd Fine, James Flavin, Al Hill, Roland Soo Hoo, Brandon Hurst, Betty Hutton, Eddie Johnson, Richard Keene, Alan Ladd, George Lloyd, Matt McHugh, Clarence Muse, Garry Owen, James Pierce, Ted Rand, Joe Recht, Reginald Simpson, Brick Sullivan, Ray Teal, Harland Tucker, John Tyrrell, John Westley, Jean Wong, Elliott Nugent, Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose
• Director: Elliott Nugent
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Kino Lorber, Paramount Pictures, Hope Enterprises, Inc.
• Media Format: Movie