They Got Me Covered
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| Directed by | David Butler |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Written by |
Leonard Spigelgass Leo Rosten Lynn Root |
| Screenplay by |
Harry Kurnitz Frank Fenton |
| Starring |
Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Otto Preminger Lenore Aubert |
| Music by |
Harold Arlen Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
| Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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95 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.5 million (US rentals) |
They Got Me Covered (1943) is a comedy film starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. The comedy movie was directed by David Butler. Otto Preminger appears in a supporting role. It is also known as Washington Story and The Washington Angle.
In the middle of WWII, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter Robert "Kit" Kittredge returns to the U.S. from his position as Moscow correspondent. He is fired for his incompetency by his editor, Norman Mason, the minute he comes back, since he has neglected to report that Germany recently has invaded Russia.
Kit goes to see his girlfriend, stenographer Christina Hill, at work in another newspaper in Washington D.C. Their meeting is stopped when one of Kit's Romanian informers, Gregory Vanescu, claims to have a big scoop for Kit.
Before he can tell Kit his story, he is shot by Nazi spies and runs into hiding, telling Kit to send Christina to the Lincoln Memorial by midnight that night, wearing a red purse and a green umbrella. To get the required accessories, Christina asks her friend Sally Branch to meet her at the monument by midnight, but by mistake Kit drives Christina to the wrong monument that night.
Sally shows up at the correct memorial and when Vanescu sees her, he believes she is Christina. Sally gets to transcribe the extensive information Vanescu has to offer, which tells of a plan to perform terror attacks on the city. Sally jots down all the information in Christina's monogrammed notebook.
Just as the meeting finishes, Nazi agents appear and steal the notebook. Realizing their mistake, Kit and Christina go to Sally's apartment and waits for her there together with her roommates and her boyfriend, Red, who is a marine.
Sally soon returns and tells the others what happened. Meanwhile, the Nazi agents realize they can't interpret Sally's handwriting. The Nazis come to Sally's apartment and "steal" her away. Christina wants them to call the FBI, but Kit is anxious to get his scoop and his job back, so he only pretends to call them.
Kit goes to look for Vanescu at a nightclub where he knows the man has been hiding before. There he finds a gypsy woman who shows him to a private room on the second floor, where two spies await - Olga and Otto Fauscheim. Olga poses as Vanescu's wife and persuades Kit to help her find her missing husband.
Olga tries to scare Kit off by leading him to an old house of an old delusional veteran, but Kit strokes the man the right way, and is instead able to discover Vanescu's dead body.
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