ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

weezeralfalfa A highly contrived secret agent farce, taking place in early WWII. The plot concerns an effort to transmit a message from England to British agents in the US concerning plans for deployment of a squadron of Lockheed Hudson light bombers the RAF has bought. The microfilm message is hidden inside a scorpion medallion which gets transferred back and forth several times between agent Madeleine Carroll (Karen) and Bob Hope(Larry: a vaudeville performer with a penguin(Percy) act. Madeleine ran into Hope while trying to lose a couple of German agents on her tail, who had killed her partner on the ship from England(Why wasn't she sent by plane for such an important mission??) Hope tries to lose this mysterious lady at first, but she finds him wherever he goes. They separately board a train for Chicago to meet an agent there. But, the Germans have beat them there and killed the agent, who leaves a note for a contact in L.A.. Madeleine and Hope have quite a time getting from Chicago to L.A., including stealing a bus and a small plane, and stowaways in a boxcar. Periodically they are running from police or sheriffs, being charged with murder or theft, along with running from the German agents, who are always hot on their heels and even ahead of them(How did the Germans know where they were going next??). At L.A., the Germans have tied up and hidden the British agent, so Madeleine steals their car and makes for the Air Base where the Hudsons are, leaving Hope behind to deal with the Germans. Somehow, he escapes the Germans and gets to the air base a little later. I had no prior knowledge of Madeleine Carrol. She didn't impress me as especially beautiful or charismatic, although she had been popular through the '30s both in the US and her native England. It was 5 years before she did another film, in the meanwhile devoting herself to various functions relating to WWII, being saddened by the death of her sister from a London air raid. I would have preferred Betty Hutton, a new arrival at Paramount, in her place in this film. I don't believe Betty ever costarred with Hope: a lost opportunity for some fantastic comedy. There were many holes in the screenplay(nothing terribly unusual),a few of which I already alluded to, for example the uncanny ability of the Germans to keep up with or anticipate Bob and Madeleine. "My Favorite Brunette", also costarring Hope, had a similar problem, with Peter Lorre popping up wherever the stars went, sometimes ahead of them. On the other hand , there is a fair amount of humor Hope-style.Note :Some factual details about the 2 engine Lockheed Hudson light bomber featured here: As shown in the film, they were made in southern California. Especially before the US entered the war, they were mostly sold to the RAF, for use in coastal patrol, sub chasing, training, transport and reconnaissance. They were not powerful enough to take part in massed bombing raids(limited range and bomb capacity). However, pilots reported they were exceptionally maneuverable for a 2 engine plane. At least early in the war, they were shipped disassembled in crates to England. Thus, the idea that a squad of Hudsons were ready to fly to England and take part in mass bombing raids doesn't jibe with the facts. The range of these planes was too short to fly across the Atlantic, at least until air bases were established in Greenland and Iceland. Hollywood often used Hudsons as proxies for larger bombers, because they were available nearby.

Alex da Silva Entertainer Bob Hope (Larry) gets dragged into World War 2 spy shenanigans when British agent Madeleine Carroll (Karen) attaches secret information onto his jacket via a brooch as she is being chased by a Nazi unit headed by the always excellent Gale Sondergaard (Madame Runick). Can Bob and Madeleine reach the authorities before they get caught? Well, it's a comedy, so no guesses…..Our two leads really do get involved in a lot during the course of this film - planes, trains and automobiles. The story keeps going at a fast pace and keeps the audience watching. Not sure it's a very good film, though. I thought it was OK but it may ultimately depend on what you think of Bob Hope and stories that are completely unrealistic. Carroll seems to be able to do everything including flying an aeroplane.It's a comedy so there are funny moments as would be expected by the law of averages, but there are also scenes that aren't particularly funny, eg, the whole Irish are stupid stereotype thing. The best part is the appearance of Bing Crosby.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Released in 1942 - In this "Bob Hope" comedy-vehicle, it certainly wasn't Hope, himself, who shone the brightest. It was, none other than, his sidekick, Percy, the cutest, little penguin that you've ever seen, who repeatedly stole the show and upstaged Hope whenever he made an appearance on screen (which certainly wasn't enough for my liking).I think that if they had built this movie around Percy, rather than Hope, it would have been a so much more pleasant and enjoyable comedy to watch, in the long run.I guess that I'm not much of a Bob Hope fan, 'cause if My Favorite Blond (MFB, for short) was a sample of him at the top of his form, then I certainly felt very let-down by Hope's apparent "knock-em-dead" abilities as one of Hollywood's top comedians of his day.Even though MFB's story remained very good-natured throughout its 80-minute running time, its rather far-fetched story wasn't funny enough to hold my rapt attention and its one-liners, being on the decidedly weak side, didn't bowl me over with their intended hilarity.Set in the days before the USA entered into WW2, MFB was a screwball comedy that tells the tale of NYC vaudeville performer, Larry Haines who gets inadvertently (and reluctantly, at first) involved with the beautiful, blond, British, secret agent, Karen Bentley, who's just arrived from England.As Haines soon discovers (when matters begin to get seriously out of hand), Karen's dire mission in America is to deliver a top-secret, coded message on micro-film (cased inside a chic, scorpion brooch) to a Colonel Ashmont in Los Angeles.With enemy, German, espionage agents hot on their trail, Karen & Larry (on their journey across the continent), spend a good part of their time doing whatever is necessary to escape the ruthless clutches of the evil Madame Runick and her no-good henchmen.MFB's story certainly had a lot of hilarious potential, but, far too often, it fell quite short of its comic possibilities for me to seriously consider it as a memorable, Hollywood classic.

ccthemovieman-1 This was an extremely silly (downright stupid in spots) farce of a comedy-adventure that gets by because it's so fast-moving and generally entertaining despite the cornball material.Even by Bob Hope standards - and his films were not the highlight of his incredible career - this film is not that funny. A major part of the problem is simply that the humor is too dated. This kind of slapstick isn't the clever stuff some of older silent comics performed, which is still great material. This is just plain dumb.The adventure part deals with Hope and British spy "Karen Bentley" (Madeline Carroll) and her attempts to stay one step ahead of the Nazis and the police as she transports valuable microfilm. Hope is along to help her and provide laughter.Hope's pet penguin was a lot funnier than Bob in this film. Dressed up in different outfits, the little creature was hilarious to view and made this film tolerable enough to sit through some 60 years later. In fact, this would have been a keeper if they had made the penguin the star, instead of the two dopey lead actors!