Movie
They Got Me Covered
Comedy film with a runtime of 95 minutes, released in 1942. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered and very little else. Co-scripted by Leonard Q. Ross (aka Leo Rosten), Leonard Spigelgass and Harry Kurnitz (among many others!), the film casts Hope as Robert Kittredge, the Moscow correspondent for a major American news service, who is fired when he neglects to file a report about Hitler's invasion of Russia. Hoping to get back in the good graces of his boss Norman Mason (Donald MacBride), Kittredge steals another reporter's story about a Nazi spy ring operating in New York. Though officially a comedy, the film is curiously unfunny at times, with Hope playing an unsympathetic, unappealing character who'll step on anyone -- including his long-suffering sweetheart (Dorothy Lamour) and a hysterical kidnap victim (Phyllis Povah) -- to get ahead. Otto Preminger is funnier (perhaps intentionally) as the head Nazi. A few good gags notwithstanding, They Got Me Covered is nowhere near as satisfying as Hope's second Goldwyn effort, The Princess and the Pirate.
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Cast
- Bob Hope
- Dorothy Lamour
- Otto Preminger
- Lenore Aubert
- Eduardo Ciannelli
- Marion Martin
- Donald Meek
- Phyllis Ruth
- Philip Ahn
- Donald MacBride
- Mary Treen
- Bettye Avery
- Margaret Hayes
- Maggie Hayes
- Mary Byrne
- William Yetter Jr.
- William Yetter
- Henry Guttman
- Florence Bates
- Walter Catlett
- John Abbott
- Frank Sully
- Wolfgang Zilzer
- Nino Pipitone
- George Chandler
- Stanley Clements
- Don Brodie
- Arnold Stang
- Etta McDaniel
- Hugh Prosser
- Donald Kerr
- Doris Day
- Lane Chandler
- Dick Keene
- Edward Gargan
- Ralph Dunn
- Lou Lubin
- Harry C. Bradley
- Ferike Boros
- Pat Lane
- Jack Carr
- Bill O'Leary
- Peggy Lynn
- Lillian Castle
- Anne O'Neal
- Hans Schumm
- Henry Victor
- Vic Mazetti
- Tom Mazetti
- John Sinclair
- Gil Perkins
- George Sherwood
- Byron Shores
- Charles Legneur
- Joe Devlin
- Richard Keene
- Kam Tong
- Willie Fung
- Greta Meyer
- Walter Soderling
- Lyle Latell
- John Mather
- Raymond Turner
- Stanley Price
- Shimen Ruskin
- Rudolph Anders
- Lynn Root
- Rudolph Maté
- Ray Binger
- Daniel Mandell
- Dan Mandell
- Adrian
- Harry Kurnitz
- Frank Fenton
- C. Bakaleinikoff
- Perry Ferguson
- Howard Bristol
