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A Bob Hope comedy that completely misses its mark; the pace is too slow and laboured for the Hope-style quick fire gags (Hope wrote the script); and the direction misses its target too, allowing too many unconvincing sequences to get to the final print.
Yet Fernandel, who doesn't really speak English, is superb as a foil and rival for Hope; his expressive face and his command of situation comedy works where Hope's stand-up instincts fail. There's an extended sequence at the end where Hope is dangling from a rope ladder on a helicopter piloted by Fernandel; Fernandel is frantically leafing through a manual, "Comment piloter un helicopter" -- "How to pilot a helicopter".
Here Fernandel has to get into a mental institution to rescue Hope and does so, among other ruses, by dressing as a cleaner.
HF September 2001
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