Bob Hope is Peanuts White, a struggling vaudevillian who just happens to be the exact double of an international spy. The government recruits him to impersonate the spy in Morocco and, whaddya know, hilarity ensues. This starts off as an absolute scream and then, as is usually the case with these types of films, the laughs start to get fewer and fewer as the movie gets bogged down in plot. A fabulous ending, though, as Hope is injected with “truth syrum” which (for some reason) inspires him to break into song and deliver a loving ode to vaudeville. It is a full five minute avalanche of schtick as Hope manically delivers puns, pratfalls, impersonations, magic tricks and dopey dance moves. A marvelous, gleeful set piece. All told, McLeod knows how to keep this sort of picture moving (he directed some of Hope’s better ones, as well as some early Marx Bros films.) Anyone who doesn’t at least like the first half of this is a nincompoop.