Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour recreate their Road movie chemistry in this wild and wacky action-packed spoof of detective movies. Hope plays a baby photographer who lives out his fantasy of being a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Impersonating a private detective, he's hired by a lovely brunette, Dorothy Lamour. Making all the wrong moves, he gets involved with an international gang dealing in uranium. The brunette baffles him, the gang slugs him, his automobile goes haywire, and the laughs keep coming fast and furious.

Legendary funnyman Bob Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters in this bubbly slapstick comedy-drama. Ronnie Jackson (Hope) wants nothing more than to step into the gumshoes of office mate Sam McCloud (film noir veteran Alan Ladd), a private investigator who runs his own detective agency. Jackson gets his big break when a mysterious femme fatale (Dorothy Lamour) strolls into his office and, mistaking him for McCloud, asks for help with her uncle's kidnapping. Jackson plays along with the detective role but is soon in way over his head as he becomes embroiled in a dangerous (and comic!) mystery. This spoof of the hardboiled detective genre also features horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney as Hope's villainous foils.