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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1942 DVD Release: 05/18/1999 Format: DVD - Black and White Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English, French, Italian Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: HBO Home Video Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Comedy, Farce, Spy Comedy

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bob Hope - Robert Kittredge
Dorothy Lamour - Christina Hill
Lenore Aubert - Mrs. Margo Vanescu
Otto Preminger - Otto Fauscheim
Eduardo Ciannelli - Baldanacco