{"id":15906,"date":"2011-10-09T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=15906"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T19:09:37","slug":"they-got-me-covered-david-butler-1943-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=15906","title":{"rendered":"They Got Me Covered (David Butler, 1943): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on TCM.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Robert\u00a0“Kit”\u00a0Kittredge (Bob Hope) is a\u00a0fumble bum\u00a0war correspondent in Europe, when he relies on a bad lead and sends\u00a0his boss at Amalgamated News a telegram\u00a0which reads “…Germany will positively not invade Russia,” but the headlines\u00a0across America\u00a0read GERMANY INVADES RUSSIA!<\/p>\n

Kittredge is summoned home and promptly fired, when he meets up with\u00a0Gregory Vanescu (John Abbott), a\u00a0source who\u00a0gives him a lead regarding a Nazi spy ring\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0 His girlfriend Chris (Dorothy Lamour) agrees to meet with Vanescu in order to transcribe his notes, but through mistaken identity Chris’ roommate is dictated the message instead, then chased down and abducted by the Nazi spies.<\/p>\n

Kit and Chris follow every clue beginning at a Morrocan night club where they speak with\u00a0“gypsy Rose Lee,” and later meet up with a Civil War veteran to play “bullet, bullet, who’s got the bullet?”\u00a0 Kit is slipped a mickey and awakens at Niagara Falls, where he discovers he’s\u00a0tied the knot\u00a0with\u00a0a burlesque doll named Gloria the Glow Girl (Marion Martin).<\/p>\n

Gloria however is nobody’s stooge, and soon decides she’s not fronting “for a bunch of swastinkers!”\u00a0 As the curtain goes up, she’s about to confide the truth to Kit, but her life is cut short, and Kit must be content with the corsage clue that Gloria places in his hand.<\/p>\n

They Got Me Covered<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>is one of\u00a0only a few pairings of Hope and Lamour, sans Bing Crosby, and is one of my favorites.\u00a0 Mixing humor,\u00a0intrigue, and the wonderful musical number Palsy Walsy<\/em>\u00a0written by Johnny Mercer, it is propaganda film noir at its best.<\/p>\n

There’s one crazy antic after another with Bob Hope in his prime and Dorothy Lamour absolutely divine.\u00a0 Included are a cast of outstanding faces, which was the norm for many of Hope’s films.\u00a0 These great character actors could often be found in many films portraying the same type of persona, such as Eduardo Ciannelli (usually a bad guy), Donald Meek (a meek type), Florence Bates (a busy body),\u00a0and famed director Otto Preminger who often played a Nazi, and also a cameo –\u00a0err of sorts – by none other than Bing!<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed on TCM. \u00a0Robert\u00a0“Kit”\u00a0Kittredge (Bob Hope) is a\u00a0fumble bum\u00a0war correspondent in Europe, when he relies on a bad lead and sends\u00a0his boss at Amalgamated News a telegram\u00a0which reads “…Germany will positively not invade Russia,” but the headlines\u00a0across America\u00a0read GERMANY INVADES RUSSIA! Kittredge is summoned home and promptly fired, when he meets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films","category-tv-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}