My Favorite Brunette
Recreating their 'Road' movie chemistry, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour shine in this wild and wacky action-packed spoof of detective movies.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 19, 2002
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney, Jr. | |
Performer: | John Hoyt, Charles Dingle, Reginald Denny, Frank Puglia, Ann Doran, Willard Robertson & Jack La Rue | |
Directed by | Elliott Nugent | |
Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland | |
Screenwriting by | Edmund Beloin & Jack Rose | |
Composition by | Robert Emmett Dolan | |
Cinematography by | Lionel Lindon | |
Art Direction by | Hans Dreier & Earl Hedrick | |
Produced by | Danny Dare |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Mild, minor, typical Hope romp.
Film Threat
Rating: 4/5 --
Bob and Dottie in a great send-up of the film noir genre.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: C --
Bob Hope comedy of errors with the one-liners a bit on the thin side, but Lon Chaney Jr. adds a little nutty fun and Peter Lorre some sinister noir atmosphere.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour recreate their Road movie chemistry in this wild and wacky action-packed spoof of detective movies. Hope plays a baby photographer who lives out his fantasy of being a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Impersonating a private detective, he's hired by a lovely brunette, Dorothy Lamour. Making all the wrong moves, he gets involved with an international gang dealing in uranium. The brunette baffles him, the gang slugs him, his automobile goes haywire, and the laughs keep coming fast and furious.
Product Description:
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.
Keywords:
Detectives
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Gangs
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Mystery
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Slapstick
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Thriller
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Vintage
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Mishaps
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Mistaken Identity
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Theatrical Release
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Gangsters
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Photographers
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Hope Springs Eternal
Movie Lover: FilmFlops Critic from
Trumbull, CT US -- July, 5, 2004
Bob, a baby photogarpher, fulfills his fantasy by masquerading as a private detective and gets far more than he bargains for, as he hunts down an imposter and is framed for murder in the process. As with any Hope vehicle, it is filled with comical quips and in-jokes. While not up to the production standards of some of his other films (notably the "Road" movies with Bing Crosby)Bob tries hard and succeeds in carrying this movie. A good supporting cast adds the proper measure of melodrama.
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- Sales Rank: 10,340
- UPC: 089218303592
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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