My Favorite Blonde (Blu-ray Review)
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Studio(s)Paramount Pictures (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
Film/Program Grade: C+
The Ghost Breakers and the Hope-Crosby
Road to Singapore, Hope was on a roll. He was already a star of radio, and the decade offered audiences more than twenty opportunities to see Hope’s antics and laugh at his quips and wisecracks.
One of his most popular films of that period is
My Favorite Blonde, a spy drama/comedy that begins with a murder aboard a ship. It’s the work of Nazis chasing British agent Karen Bentley (Madeleine Carroll), who must deliver a brooch containing revised U.S. bomber flight plans to a fellow agent in Chicago, who in turn will deliver it to an air base in California. Trying to elude her pursuers, she slips into a vaudeville house where Larry Haines (Hope) is performing with his penguin, Percy. Larry is preparing to board a train for California, where Percy has been offered a lucrative job in the movies. Karen’s feminine wiles induce Larry to let her tag along, but the German spies, led by Dr. Streger (George Zucco) and Madame Runick (Gale Sondergaard), never let them out of their evil sights.