Louisiana Purchase

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

Cast

Bob Hope

as Jim Taylor

Vera Zorina

as Marina Von Minden

Victor Moore

as Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry

Irène Bordoni

as Madame Yvonne Bordelaise

Dona Drake

as Beatrice

Raymond Walburn

as Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear

Maxie Rosenbloom

as The Shadow aka Wilson

Phyllis Ruth

as Emmy Lou

Frank Albertson

as Robert Davis, Jr.

Donald MacBride

as Capt. Pierre Whitfield

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This 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 alon...

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