My Favorite Spy

If you like Bob Hope there are two of him in the picture currently playing at the U.T. The first is Bob Hope the burlesque comedian, known to the trade as Peanuts White. The second is a suave, debonair, international man of mystery, Eric Augustine.

Hope is forced to play this double role when the Government decides that the burlesque comedian resembles (identically) a more notorious figure who is about to purchase valuable micro-films from An Enemy Agent in Africa.

It is the interplay between the two characterizations that gives this film its humor. As Eric Augustine attempts to handle Hedy Lamarr with calculated detachment, Peanuts White is neither calculated nor detached. As Augustine faces danger he is hard, cold. Peanuts White is soft, he melts.

The main portion of the picture takes place in exotic Tangier, the crossroads of international skullduggery, and Hope slinks through the Moroccan bazzaars with the grace of a three-footed panther. The whole things ends with a grand chise in the traditional W.C. Fields style.