MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE: 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 in solving her uncle's kidnapping. Jackson plays along with the detective role but is soon in 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.

ROAD TO BALI: The only road picture Bob Hope and Bing Crosby ever made in color- the inimitable comedy duo set out to rescue a native princess- the lovely Dorothy Lamour- from a plethora of jungle dangers. Guest appearances by Dean Martin- Jerry Lewis- and Jane Russell.