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My Favorite Spy is a 1951 American comedy spy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr and Francis L. Sullivan. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and forms the third of a loose trilogy featuring Hope including My Favorite Blonde and My Favorite Brunette .
My Favorite Spy: Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss. A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.
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- Comedy, Crime, Music
- Norman Z. McLeod
- 1951-12-25
Director Norman Z. McLeod's romantic espionage comedy My Favorite Spy (1951) is very cute. McLeod goes full film noir on his stylish direction and playful use of spies in love for quick...
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- Norman Z. Mcleod
- Comedy
- Bob Hope
The perennial comic favorite Bob Hope springs to life in 1951's My Favorite Spy, a Paramount laugh-getter positioned at the midpoint of a film career that began with a catchy song in The Big Broadcast of 1938 and built to high popularity in the "Road" pictures with Bing Crosby.
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic Tangier.
Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is approached by federal agents who think that he's international spy Eric Augustine, to whom Peanuts bears a striking resemblance.
