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When test results get mixed up, multi-millionaire hypochondriac John Kidley is told that he only has a month to live. He dumps his fiancée, Juno Marko, while he is at the Swiss spa of Bad Gaswasser, there he meets a young Texas heiress, Mickey Hawkins.
Mickey has been betrothed to the fortune-hunting Prince Smirnov, but is in love with Henry Munch, a bus driver from back home. Believing he is dying, and wanting to help out, John suggests that Mickey and he get married, planning on leaving her his fortune so that she can marry who she wants when he's gone. On their honeymoon, with Henry along as a chaperone, the couple fall in love for real, although, of course, they don't realize it right away.
During the honeymoon, ・・・・・・・

to be continued




Martha Raye as Mickey Hawkins　マーサ・レイ
Bob Hope as John Kidley　ボブ・ホープ
Andy Devine as Henry Munch　アンディ・デヴァイン
Alan Mowbray as Prince Smirnov　アラン・モウブレイ
Gale Sondergaard as Juno Marko　ゲイル・ソンダガード
Sig Ruman as Poppa Ingleborg　シグ・ルーマン
Ernest Cossart as Jeepers　アーネスト・コサート
Paul Harvey as Jasper Hawkins　ポール・ハーヴェイ
Monty Woolley as Dr. Schmidt　モンティ・ウーリー

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1939年の作品。エリオット・ニュージェント監督。
マーサ・レイ、ボブ・ホープ主演のコメディ。
ホープの初期の頃の作品。

珍道中シリーズほど知られているわけではなく、知名度が高いとは言えない。
けどそれなりの面白さはあるかと。

しかしホープが宣告される、自分自身を消化して消え去るとか、無茶苦茶な話。
本当の医者かよ。