dir. Henry Koster at Warner Bros.
with Danny Kaye (as Georgi), Walter Slezak (as Yakov), Barbara Bates (as Leza), Elsa Lanchester (as Maria), Gene Lockhart (as the Mayor) and Rhys Williams (as the Inspector General)

Standing out from Kaye’s usual antics in this film are an acrobatic sequence in a military training school in which Kaye wrestles with a dummy, and a few songs written by Sylvia Fine which are nice vehicles for Kaye’s vocal dexterity.  Gene Lockhart is his usual bumbling self in this film and Slezak gives a good turn as the villain.  Elsa Lanchester is probably the most entertaining of the supporting characters however, in her role as Lockhart’s wife who falls in love with Kaye.

Reviewed: February 27, 2000

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