My Favorite Blonde

Apr 2, 1942

1h 18m

★ 6.4

HELP! SHE'S AFTER ME! IS THERE A BRUNETTE IN THE HOUSE?

Overview

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Larry Haines

Bob Hope

Karen Bentley

Madeleine Carroll

Madame Stephanie Runick

Gale Sondergaard

Dr. Hugo Streger

George Zucco

Karl

Lionel Royce

Dr. Wallace Faber

Walter Kingsford

Miller

Victor Varconi

Lanz

Otto Reichow

Mrs. Topley

Esther Howard

Mulrooney

Edward Gargan

Union Secretary

James Burke

Turk O'Flaherty

Charles Cane

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6.6

Cottage to Let

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Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

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0.0

Manhattan Mixup

Dec 31, 2011

A homage to screwballs and mistaken identity films like The Great Dictator & North by Northwest, set in 1943. It's Cora Apple's birthday, and she gets surprise she never expected when her sisters (Seedy & Candy) accidentally swap her birthday package for the plans to the Manhattan project. Worse yet, the sisters are mistaken for the three undercover female scientists and get kidnapped by the Nazis. The Apple Sisters use their charm, wit, and dumb luck to escape the Nazis and save the world.

6.2

Counter-Espionage

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The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

7.0

Back from the Front

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The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.

7.3

They Stooge to Conga

Jan 1, 1943

The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.

6.0

Lucky Jordan

Nov 16, 1942

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

5.1

Operation Caviar

Oct 18, 1961

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

3.4

Dick Barton: Special Agent

Mar 1, 1948

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

5.3

The Balloon Goes Up

Dec 1, 1942

Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.

6.6

Eye of the Needle

Jul 24, 1981

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

6.1

Journey into Fear

Jan 7, 1943

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

6.2

The Entertainer

Jul 25, 1960

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

5.5

The Hour Before the Dawn

May 10, 1944

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.

6.6

Nazi Agent

Mar 1, 1942

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.

3.7

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Mar 27, 1942

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

6.9

Ministry of Fear

May 19, 1944

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.