The film started off with a very good story line about a gangster named Ten Grand Jackson (Steve Cochran) who is going on trial shortly with the key witness being song and dance funny man Buzzy Bellew (Danny Kaye). So gangster Ten Grand Jackson assigns two of his dumb thugs to drop Buzzy in the lake with a bullet in his head and that is exactly what they do. Buzzy's after life persona immediately contacts his identical twin bookworm shy and introvert brother named Edwin Dingle to set things straight with Ten Grand Jackson as well as with his fiance Midge Mallon.
Now these two identical twin brothers have not seen each other for a few years with Buzzy being the confident extrovert comedian who is engaged to the beautiful Midge Mallon (Vera-Ellen), and Edwin being the brainy and shy twin brother who is infatuated with his own lovely lady named Ellen Shanley (Virginia Mayo). You can surmise that the plot of the film is how will the dead Buzzy Bellew convince his identical twin introvert brother Edwin that he has really been murdered and the only one who can avenge Buddy's murder is his twin brother Edwin.
So the fun begins as Edwin comes to realize that his outgoing (but very dead) twin brother Buzzy will do just about anything to get Edwin to pretend he is his dead brother. Buzzy intends to execute his plan through Edwin's live body to ensure that the mobster Ten Grand Jackson is held accountable for all of his crimes which include murder and that Buzzy's fiance Midge comes to realize that Edwin is who he says he is and that Buzzy is actually dead and he did not abandon Midge at the altar. At the same time with Edwin's body and mind being physically overtaken by his dead twin brother Buzzy's stronger will Edwin has recently neglected his own love interest that being the beautiful Ellen Shanley which he needs to explain why he has been preoccupied by his brother Buzzy's ghost.
It is an above average story line and I would have rated it higher if not for the 30 minutes or so that this film dedicated to Danny Kaye's corny song and dance solo numbers interspersed throughout the film which in my humble opinion confused an otherwise engaged audience. I was looking for more interaction with the two gorgeous co-stars that being Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellen with a constant comedy themed film along the lines of many of the Abbott and Costello slapstick comedy classics which this film started out as and ended with, but filling so many holes with those corny solo song and dances by Danny Kaye deflated the film rating from a 9 out of 10 rating to an average 6 out 10 rating.
Now these two identical twin brothers have not seen each other for a few years with Buzzy being the confident extrovert comedian who is engaged to the beautiful Midge Mallon (Vera-Ellen), and Edwin being the brainy and shy twin brother who is infatuated with his own lovely lady named Ellen Shanley (Virginia Mayo). You can surmise that the plot of the film is how will the dead Buzzy Bellew convince his identical twin introvert brother Edwin that he has really been murdered and the only one who can avenge Buddy's murder is his twin brother Edwin.
So the fun begins as Edwin comes to realize that his outgoing (but very dead) twin brother Buzzy will do just about anything to get Edwin to pretend he is his dead brother. Buzzy intends to execute his plan through Edwin's live body to ensure that the mobster Ten Grand Jackson is held accountable for all of his crimes which include murder and that Buzzy's fiance Midge comes to realize that Edwin is who he says he is and that Buzzy is actually dead and he did not abandon Midge at the altar. At the same time with Edwin's body and mind being physically overtaken by his dead twin brother Buzzy's stronger will Edwin has recently neglected his own love interest that being the beautiful Ellen Shanley which he needs to explain why he has been preoccupied by his brother Buzzy's ghost.
It is an above average story line and I would have rated it higher if not for the 30 minutes or so that this film dedicated to Danny Kaye's corny song and dance solo numbers interspersed throughout the film which in my humble opinion confused an otherwise engaged audience. I was looking for more interaction with the two gorgeous co-stars that being Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellen with a constant comedy themed film along the lines of many of the Abbott and Costello slapstick comedy classics which this film started out as and ended with, but filling so many holes with those corny solo song and dances by Danny Kaye deflated the film rating from a 9 out of 10 rating to an average 6 out 10 rating.