My Favorite Brunette (1947) 5/8
My Favorite Brunette (1947)Legendary funnyman Bob Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters in this bubbly slapstick comedy-drama. Ronnie Jackson (Hope) wants nothing more than to step into the gumshoes of office mate Sam McCloud (film noir veteran Alan Ladd), a private investigator who runs his own detective agency. Jackson gets his big break when a mysterious femme fatale (Dorothy Lamour) strolls into his office and, mistaking him for McCloud, asks for help with her uncle's kidnapping. Jackson plays along with the detective role but is soon in way over his head as he becomes embroiled in a dangerous (and comic!) mystery. This spoof of the hardboiled detective genre also features horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney as Hope's villainous foils.Director: Elliott NugentScreenwriter: Edmund Beloin, Jack RoseProducer: Danny DareComposer: Robert Emmett DolanStarring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, John Hoyt, Charles Dingle, Reginald Denny, Frank Puglia, Ann Doran, Willard Robertson, Jack LaRue*sorry about poor quality- public domain
Author: nigelhalfwitt
Keywords: My Favorite Brunette 1947 comedy Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Peter Lorre Lon Chaney
Added: November 30, 2008