Louisiana Purchase
"WHERE THERE'S HOPE...THERE'S LIFE AND LAUGHTER!"
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Top Cast
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Bob Hope
Jim Taylor
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Vera Zorina
Marina Von Minden
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Victor Moore
Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
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Irène Bordoni
Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
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Dona Drake
Beatrice
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Raymond Walburn
Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
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Maxie Rosenbloom
The Shadow aka Wilson
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Phyllis Ruth
Emmy Lou
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Frank Albertson
Robert Davis, Jr.
Overview
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Rating
6.7
/ 10
12 Reviews 1 Popular
1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Jul 12, 2025This starts off with quite a fun little ditty that serves as their libel/defamation disclaimer - proclaiming that none of this is based on any real people! Who might have taken offence in the US of A in 1941 to the idea of a senate investigation into the dodgy goings on in any state at all, let alone Louisiana? Well it appears that the imminent arrival of the tee-total “Sen. Loganberry” (Victor Moore) has set the cat amongst the pigeons, and talking of pigeons it looks like “Taylor” (Bob Hope) is going to become exactly that. The great and the good of his state have been merrily creaming off the top for years, but any evidence of their miscreant behaviour will stop firmly with this poor patsy. Facing a million years in jail, the bosses encourage him to find a way to leverage their inscrutable visitor and so he’d better get his thinking cap on. What now ensues sees Hope (well two of him quite often) and his friend “Marina” (Vera Zorina) try to embroil the man in all sorts of compromising scenarios. Of course, as things mosey on along there are a few romantic opportunities with Irène Bordoni making up this quartet of mischief and mayhem. It’s based on the stage play with a few Irving Berlin numbers - notably “You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely? - amongst it, and though it does drag a little as the joke borders the slapstick too closely for my liking, it does show Hope in a slightly less hapless light, Moore delivers engagingly and there’s been a little thought gone into the plot to keep it from farce. It’s a colourful and lively production and might well do wonders for the sale of oysters in Nebraska.
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