Replacing Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby, and Martin and Lewis for just one pairing is the team of Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss as two uranium prospectors who stumble upon the location of a H-Bomb testing site with Mickey being caught in a model home on the verge of being blown off the face of the earth. Mickey manages somehow to keep himself from being blown to smithereens and becomes prisoner of the military as they search for the reason why he survived and to keep him out of the hands of obvious Russian spies.
Amateurish juvenile humor makes you think Andy Hardy never really grew up, because he really is one of the biggest dunces that Rooney ever played. There are a few funny moments (one involving his affect on a Las Vegas casino) but they are mostly of the kiddie humor variety. Elaine Davis (billed as Mrs. Mickey Rooney by her producer husband) is actually O.K. as the nurse looking over him who finds him adorable, but Rooney is overladen with silliness, especially a high-pitched helium voice where the dubbing doesn't match Mickey's moving lips. It is sort of sad to see the former "King of Hollywood" reduced to such drivel in the middle stages of his career.
Amateurish juvenile humor makes you think Andy Hardy never really grew up, because he really is one of the biggest dunces that Rooney ever played. There are a few funny moments (one involving his affect on a Las Vegas casino) but they are mostly of the kiddie humor variety. Elaine Davis (billed as Mrs. Mickey Rooney by her producer husband) is actually O.K. as the nurse looking over him who finds him adorable, but Rooney is overladen with silliness, especially a high-pitched helium voice where the dubbing doesn't match Mickey's moving lips. It is sort of sad to see the former "King of Hollywood" reduced to such drivel in the middle stages of his career.