Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, Mystery
Release Year: 1947
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 4.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Elliott Nugent
Sound: Mono
Taglines:Hes a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!
Writing by: Edmund Beloin - (original screenplay) and
Jack Rose - (original screenplay)
Produced by: Daniel Dare - producer
Cast: Bob Hope - Ronnie Jackson
Dorothy Lamour - Baroness Carlotta Montay
Peter Lorre - Kismet
Lon Chaney Jr. - Willie (as Lon Chaney)
John Hoyt - Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle - Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny - James Collins
Frank Puglia - Baron Stefan Montay / Nicholas
Ann Doran - Miss Rogers
Willard Robertson - Prison Warden
Jack La Rue - Tony
Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbors office...
Plot: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbors office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
When the opening credits finally appear(about 10 minutes into the film), they appear letter by letter as if typed by a typewriter. When the credits completely fill the screen, the camera pans to the left, wiping the credits off the screen.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: A shot of the plane landing is flipped: the writing on the tail is backwards.
Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, Mystery
Release Year: 1947
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 4.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Elliott Nugent
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Edmund Beloin - (original screenplay) and
Jack Rose - (original screenplay)
Produced by: Daniel Dare - producer
Cast: Bob Hope - Ronnie Jackson
Dorothy Lamour - Baroness Carlotta Montay
Peter Lorre - Kismet
Lon Chaney Jr. - Willie (as Lon Chaney)
John Hoyt - Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle - Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny - James Collins
Frank Puglia - Baron Stefan Montay / Nicholas
Ann Doran - Miss Rogers
Willard Robertson - Prison Warden
Jack La Rue - Tony
Music: Robert Emmett Dolan
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbors office...
Plot: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbors office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
When the opening credits finally appear(about 10 minutes into the film), they appear letter by letter as if typed by a typewriter. When the credits completely fill the screen, the camera pans to the left, wiping the credits off the screen.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: A shot of the plane landing is flipped: the writing on the tail is backwards.
Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- On a Capitol Records 78, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour waxed two Jay Livingston-Ray Evans tunes: the romantic "Beside You," a Lamour solo in the film, and a comic-banter ditty named after the movie, although this number was not performed in the picture.
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