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80 years ago in 1941 a twin-engine Heinkel came in along Loch Ness at mid-day, flying so low that the German airmen were clearly seen.

Drama Paramount followed up its successful Bob Hope/Paulette Goddard co-starrer The Cat and the Canary (1939) by warming up another venerable old dark house stage play, Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard's The Ghost Breaker, pluralizing the title to accommodate both stars. This time Hope plays radio personality Lawrence L. Lawrence (the middle initial stands for Lawrence: My folks had no imagination) who has to flee New York to avoid being mistakenly arrested for murder. He and his manservant Alex (Willie Best) book passage on a Cuba-bound liner, where they meet lovely heiress Mary Carter (P...

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 del...