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Bookmark this pageMy Favorite Brunette (1947)
Director: Elliott Nugent
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From Time Out Film Guide
Likeable parody of the hardboiled world of Hammett and Chandler. Hope goes through his familiar routine as a craven photographer, a specialist in baby portraiture, who takes over from an absent private eye (Alan Ladd in a trench-coated cameo appearance) to help out Lamour's damsel in distress. The wisecracks are a little thin on the ground, but the noir atmosphere is handled with a nice mixture of bizarrerie (Lorre, Chaney) and deadpan (such iconographic figures as Jack LaRue and Anthony Caruso).Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Elliott Nugent
Producer: Danny Dare
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr, John Hoyt, Reginald Denny, Charles Dingle, Frank Puglia, Ann Doran, Bing Crosby full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 87 mins
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