Complete credited cast: | |||
Bing Crosby | ... | Duke Johnson | |
Bob Hope | ... | Chester Hooton | |
Dorothy Lamour | ... | Sal Van Hoyden | |
Hillary Brooke | ... | Kate | |
Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Ace Larson | |
Jack La Rue | ... | LeBec (as Jack LaRue) | |
Robert Barrat | ... | Sperry | |
Nestor Paiva | ... | McGurk | |
Robert Benchley | ... | Narrator |
At the turn of the century, Duke and Chester, two vaudeville performers, go to Alaska to make their fortune. On the ship to Skagway, they find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been stolen by McGurk and Sperry, a couple of thugs. They disguise themselves as McGurk and Sperry to get off the ship. Meanwhile, Sal Van Hoyden is in Alaska to try and recover the map; it had been her father's. She falls in with Ace Larson, who wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke and Chester, McGurk and Sperry, Ace and his henchmen, and Sal, chase each other all over the countryside, trying to get the map. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Bob and Bing pal through this in their breezy manner, ably assisted by Dottie Lamour and especially the dry witty commentary of humorist Robert Benchley. Students of film and lovers of movies will appreciate the quality of the production, and rejoice in the knowledge that not everything funny was created after 1990.