Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lon Chaney, Reginald Denny, Charles Dingle
• Directors: Elliott Nugent
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Digital Sound
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Disc Plaza Entertainment
• Run Time: 85.0 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BVXPJG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,648 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A baby Photographer gets more than he bargains for when he's asked by his friend and private eye, to keep an eye on his office while he's away. A beautiful client Carlotta Montay claims that her uncle is missing and Ronnie, jumps in with both feet getting himself into a whole mess of trouble is the process. From crazy car chases, to being thrown into a mental institution, to slipping through the hands of kidnappers and he even ends up on death row - framed for muder. But will a strange photo Ronnie snapped during his adventures het him off?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie, Terrible Transfer, December 22, 1999

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InSearchOfTheRedButton (Lostin, OH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Favorite Brunette (DVD)

This review refers to the Madacy release.

Ten stars for the movie, minus eight stars for the transfer equals two stars for the DVD.

As great as this movie is, the transfer to DVD is pathetic; I suggest turning it down. The beginning of the movie is the worst part, full of scratches and sound so poor it's difficult to understand the dialog. Unbelievably, it's not even presented in full frame. The left side of the credits (and presumably, the rest of the movie) are cut off.

I suppose that in any industry or technology, there will be people in it just to make a buck. Movies such as this are a national treasure that deserves to be treated and immortalized as an art form. This is just the "make a buck" version.
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I think this should be Madacy's tagline: "If it's from Madacy, you will be MAD when you SEE what you paid for."

Before transferring a movie to video, these people would put a pristine print through a blender just to make sure their standards don't deviate.

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Remastered?", December 12, 2005

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Shaun333 - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Brunette (1947) [Remastered Edition] (DVD)

It always amuses me when you see a product (that is not a big studio, mind you) that advertises a movie as being "remastered". Well, folks, I've got news for you, it's not. Perhaps they meant that it was remastered in a mysterious basement somewhere taken from a print that can't count itself higher than 8mm. It really is too bad, given that this is one of my favorite movies. A film that makes a comedy out of being a Private Eye, puts Bob Hope in the role of a baby photographer that takes the place of his P.I. friend when he goes out of town for a couple of days. Bob Hope is quick and funny and it's not campy, but quite witty and an enjoyable watch. There are no good transfers out yet that I've seen of this film and I jumped at this when I saw "remastered" in the title. The transfer here is completely average, not great, but watchable with some skipping of audio throughout as well. The studio for this DVD review is A2ZCDS. The price isn't exactly low either, that's why I figured that it was legit. I should have jumped back instead.

Movie-5 Stars
Transfer-2.5 stars

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Above Average Bob Hope Movie - LOUSY DVD!, May 2, 2004

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Erik Rupp (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Favorite Brunette (DVD)

This review refers to the Alpha (Gotham Distribution, as listed on Amazon) version of this movie on DVD. The print used for this DVD is absolutely horrible. The opening credits are barely readable, and the movie itself looks murky and has tons of scratches and dust. It's a shame that Alpha couldn't find a better print, but from some of the reviews I've read it seems that some other companies have had the same problem. It would be better not to release it at all than to use such a bad print. This is a really fun movie, and it deserves a lot better than this. Wait for a cleaner copy to surface - one will eventually.