European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Suspense and much hilarity follow Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour As they frantically Trail International Crooks now showing in the zone my favorite Brunette Hope at his hippest and funniest gives substantial proof that Hes still a top comedian Bob Hope does it again in his latest picture my favorite Brunette and proves to his faithful As Well As not so ardent followers that Hes still one of the funniest men in the movies his fast delivery of gags and precise timing in his newest film Are As faultless As the Standard set by Hope at his and they keep building rapidly under the expert directive hand of Elliot it All starts off with our hero sitting in the death cell and telling the press exactly How it because he wanted to be like Humphrey Dick Powell and Alan Ladd in the comes his perfect Chance the Day 14 he is minding the detectives office next to his photographic studio and Dorothy Lovely mistakes him for the from there on it Breaks into a Trot and works up to a mad dash that involves International a uranium Peter Lorre tossing and Lon As the keeper of a one of the funniest scenes is Hope playing Golf at the sanitarium with a Friendly inmate who prefers the game without a the plot thickens As fast As Hope can Wise crack his Way from one scrape into giving with More gags and quips in eighty eight minutes of running time than he gets into three hours of his radio its the perfect formula for Hope and he handles his end Slickly with Good support from the rest of the Dorothy Lamour has turned out to be a Good comedienne in her own right and reaches far beyond the usual Stooge role that is Given the script defies but the whole production is done with much knowhow and romps riotously through every preposterous situation most its a smartly done All Hope and what Hes come to stand the Best comedy weve seen in Many Paramount has outdone its Best efforts to bring moviegoers Good entertainment
