Old-fashioned, leisurely paced private-eye (though there are no actual private eyes on the screen) spoof, littered with one-liners and then-topical pop references, some of which will mean nothing to today's viewers, though others will be caught by almost everyone even today. The bad guys are revealed in the middle of the picture, and the direction and - especially - the music score make the movie play like a prolonged TV series episode. But Bob Hope's lines have a reasonably high success ratio, and he is complemented by two lovely co-stars: classy, milf-y Eva Marie Saint (there is a showstopping frame of her legs), and fresh, bodacious Anne Archer. **1/2 out of 4.
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