They Got Me Covered
by David Butler
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Actor: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lenore Aubert, Otto PremingerDirector: David Butler
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Frank Fenton
Writer: Harry Kurnitz
Writer: Leo Rosten
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass
Writer: Lynn Root
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Italian (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of They Got Me Covered
Movie Review: Star of Stage, Screen and Radio
Summary: 5 Stars
I suppose the enormous reputation and popularity which Bob Hope achieved with the American people has already faded and will continue to do so. Thus it is with most "Icons" who have not established a cult identity. Nonetheless, for about a half-century, no entertainer was "bigger" than Hope over-all, although the occasional challenger, a Jackie Gleason or Marily Monroe, might share that eminence.
This is not among the best of his films, but it is characteristic of how well he sells his wares. Brash, highly verbal, adaptable to physical comedy, good-looking enough to make it credible that he should get the girl, but, with a face that doesn't meet the Robert Taylor-Tyrone Power standard of male beauty....by a long shot. The script for his mystery-thriller-adventure films is followed in this relatively early one (World War 2 period) as does the expression of some of his central characteristics as a comedian, aggressive women chasing, bumbling, defeated, victorious, almost by accident, cowardly but brave when he has to be. It was a winning combination in all his media of choice.
His co-star, as often was the case, was the lovely, talented Dorothy Lamour, one of his co-partners on the highly successful Road pictures; they were supported by an assortment of character actors, led by Otto Preminger, soon to become a leading director of films, amd Eduardo Cianelli, an actor of great skill (see his superb performance in the mid-thirties production of Winterset) who made his living for many years as a tough gangster,although he did a fine job,many years later,as Sophia Loren's father,in the Cary Grant comedy.Houseboat.
So, not a first rate comedy, but quite a good one, pretty sure to give you an hour and a half of pleasure.
Summary of They Got Me Covered
Everybody does his or her bit for the war effort in this comedy thriller released in 1943, smack in the middle of World War II. Bob Hope stars as bumbling war correspondent Robert Kittredge, a man so inept that he misses the German invasion of Russia. "I wouldn't even trust you to cover a hole in the carpet!" screams his editor in chief, Mason (Donald MacBride, with the requisite steam coming out of his ears). Then, of course, Kittredge stumbles onto an evil Axis plot and ends up saving the world.Dorothy Lamour--Hope and Bing Crosby's glamorous love interest in seven Road pictures--appears here sans sarong, playing an intrepid Lois Lane type. But Hope doesn't have to fight Crosby for her affections; "Der Bingle" makes only one brief vocal appearance, via a music box. Subtlety is not this movie's strong suit, and goofy gags abound from the start, with Hope skulking through a Russian hotel disguised as a Cossack to escape creditors. The Axis characters--Germans, Italians, and Japanese--are stereotypical villains all. An uncanny Mussolini look-alike has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in an airplane scene, and acclaimed director Otto Preminger proves he's a good sport with his portrayal of a wicked Nazi ringleader. It's all a fun romp, and an interesting look back at the kind of propaganda Hollywood once churned out to help keep the world safe for democracy. --Laura Mirsky
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