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* ItWasHereISwear: Ronnie summons the police and drives back to the mansion with them. The mansion is deserted, and Kismet poses as the gardener for the owners, who are out of the country. The police apologize to Kismet for the interruption.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Ronnie knocks out Willie by smashing him over the head with a champagne bottle he finds wedged in the chandelier.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: After knocking out Ronnie in [=McCloud=]'s office, Kismet burns the only print and what he thinks is the only negative of the photo exposing Baron Montay as a phony. However,it turns out Ronnie had picked up the wrong negative from his darkroom.
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* MistakenForBadass: While taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, baby photographer Ronnie Jackson is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium.
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* CaughtOnTape: In the Montague gang's suite, Ronnie and Carlotta record the gang's confessions on a recording machine, including Kismet's confession that he murdered Collins.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: As Ronnie parks outside the police station, Kismet, who's hiding in the back seat with Ronnie's gun, shoots Collins and steals the map from his pocket. Ronnie and the dead Collins are spotted by the police, and Ronnie flees the scene, now wanted for Collins' murder.
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* MuggedForDisguise: In the sanatorium, Carlotta knocks out her nurse and steals her uniform in order to sneak her and Ronnie. Unfortunately, the uniform is way too big for her.
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* CatchAndReturn: Ronnie pulls on of the knives from the KnifeOutline around him and throws it back and Kismet. Kismet casually catches it and throws it back at him.
* KnifeOutline: In the kitchen at sanitarium, Kismet throws multiple knives at Ronnie, which form an outline around his head and shoulders.
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* KnifeOutline: In the kitchen at sanitarium, Kismet throws multiple knives at Ronnie, which form an outline around his head and shoulders.
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* KnifeOutline: In the kitchen at sanitarium, Kismet throws multiple knives at Ronnie, which form an outline around his head and shoulders.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Ronnie peeking through the window at Major Simon Montague's mansion when he sees the supposedly wheelchair bound Baron Montay stand up.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Ronnie makes several aside comments to the audience. In the final scene, he insults [[Creator/BingCrosby Harry]] with "You'll take any sort of part!"
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Ronnie makes several aside comments to the audience. In the final scene, he insults [[Creator/BingCrosby Harry]] with "You'll "He'll take any sort kind of a part!"
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* DiagnosisKnowsTooMuch: The conspirators tell Ronnie that Carlotta's story is a delusion. Later, she's locked in a sanitarium to keep her from talking.
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* DiagnosisKnowsTooMuch: The conspirators tell Ronnie that Carlotta's story is a delusion. Later, she's locked in a sanitarium to keep her from talking.
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* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with Ronnie on death row, telling a group of journalists how he got falsely accused of murder.
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* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with Ronnie on death row, DeathRow, telling a group of journalists how he got falsely accused of murder.
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* GallowsHumor: The scenes in the prison are full of Ronnie making jokes about his impending execution.
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Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams of being a detective. He gets his chance when Baroness Carlotta Montay (Lamour) mistakes him for a detective and hires him to find her missing "husband" (actually her uncle).
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Ronnie Jackson (Hope) is a baby photographer who dreams of being a detective. He gets his chance when Baroness Carlotta Montay (Lamour) mistakes him for a detective and hires him to find her missing "husband" (actually her uncle). Ronnie soon finds himself getting mixed up with the missing man's sinister former business partner and his henchmen (Creator/PeterLorre and Creator/LonChaneyJr).
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* TheCameo: Alan Ladd Creator/AlanLadd as Sam [=McCloud=] [=McCloud=],[[note]]a play on [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon Sam Spade]] [[/note]] Ronnie's detective friend, and Creator/BingCrosby as Harry Harry,[[note]]Crosby's real-life first name[[/note]] the executioner.executioner at San Quentin.
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* CreatorInJoke: During Crosby's cameo, Lamour gives her ''Film/RoadTo'' films love-interest a "who is ''that''" stare before finally having her attention dragged back to Hope.
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* ReplacedWithReplica: Ronnie manages to make a record of the spies, but one of the spies switches it for a swing music record.
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* DumbMuscle: Willie is strong enough to bend iron bars out of shape, and dumb enough to be constantly fooled by Ronnie.
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''My Favorite Brunette'' is a 1947 comedy parodying the FilmNoir genre, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Creator/BobHope and Dorothy Lamour. It's quite similar to ''Film/MyFavoriteBlonde'', one of Hope's earlier films.
Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams of being a detective. He gets his chance when Baroness Carlotta Montay mistakes him for a detective and hires him to find her missing "husband" (actually her uncle).
!!Tropes:
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Ronnie makes several aside comments to the audience. In the final scene he insults [[Creator/BingCrosby Harry]] with "You'll take any sort of part!"
* BlackComedy: The scenes in the prison are full of Ronnie making jokes about his impending execution.
* BrickJoke: Ronnie gave Mrs. Fong the wrong photograph. This is what leads to him being cleared of murder.
* TheCameo: Alan Ladd as Sam [=McCloud=] and Creator/BingCrosby as Harry the executioner.
* CelebrityParadox: PlayedForLaughs when Ronnie tells [=McCloud=] he wants to be a detective "like Alan Ladd". Guess who plays [=McCloud=]?
* DumbMuscle: Willie is strong enough to bend iron bars out of shape, and dumb enough to be constantly fooled by Ronnie.
* FemmeFatale: Parodied, of course, by Carlotta.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with Ronnie on death row, telling a group of journalists how he got falsely accused of murder.
* MistakenForCrazy:
** Montague tells Ronnie that Carlotta is crazy. She isn't, but Ronnie misinterprets her actions to mean she is. It doesn't help that she's waving a knife around while talking to him.
** Later, Ronnie and Carlotta are both locked up in a sanitarium. Played with, because the people who locked them up know they're sane, but they want everyone else to believe they're mad.
* MistakenIdentity: How Ronnie gets involved in the case.
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Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams of being a detective. He gets his chance when Baroness Carlotta Montay mistakes him for a detective and hires him to find her missing "husband" (actually her uncle).
!!Tropes:
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Ronnie makes several aside comments to the audience. In the final scene he insults [[Creator/BingCrosby Harry]] with "You'll take any sort of part!"
* BlackComedy: The scenes in the prison are full of Ronnie making jokes about his impending execution.
* BrickJoke: Ronnie gave Mrs. Fong the wrong photograph. This is what leads to him being cleared of murder.
* TheCameo: Alan Ladd as Sam [=McCloud=] and Creator/BingCrosby as Harry the executioner.
* CelebrityParadox: PlayedForLaughs when Ronnie tells [=McCloud=] he wants to be a detective "like Alan Ladd". Guess who plays [=McCloud=]?
* DumbMuscle: Willie is strong enough to bend iron bars out of shape, and dumb enough to be constantly fooled by Ronnie.
* FemmeFatale: Parodied, of course, by Carlotta.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with Ronnie on death row, telling a group of journalists how he got falsely accused of murder.
* MistakenForCrazy:
** Montague tells Ronnie that Carlotta is crazy. She isn't, but Ronnie misinterprets her actions to mean she is. It doesn't help that she's waving a knife around while talking to him.
** Later, Ronnie and Carlotta are both locked up in a sanitarium. Played with, because the people who locked them up know they're sane, but they want everyone else to believe they're mad.
* MistakenIdentity: How Ronnie gets involved in the case.
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