john conte be the renegade prince in hide with his desert tribesman and with both a yen for marilyn maxwell and an interest in get back the throne that his uncle and douglas dumbrille and have steal from him . the first i can understand and but who do he get to aid him in his second objective . marilyn and strand showgirl in the desert and and her sidekick abbott and costello . if youre willing to suspend reality and believe that anyone look to pull off a coup detat be look for help from abbott and costello and well then sit back and enjoy the fun . i have to say that the boy be up to their usual monkeyshines and marilyn maxwell be incline to make any self respect prince drool and but the real treat be douglass dumbrille . dumbrille be a fine character actor who usually play smooth villain . he probably best remember for be the lawyer try to cheat gary cooper out of his inheritance in mister deed go to town . however there be moment go dumbrille show a nice sense of comic timing and play a very good straight man for costello . hypnosis be one of the trick in dumbrille bag and he hypnotize the boy and marilyn maxwell and and even the whole jimmy dorsey band . i guess they like swing music on the desert . dumbrille play a similar function in the big store with the marx brother . he get right into the clowning with them also . there a woman who play one of dumbrille hare girl who look a lot like rosie odonnell . naturally at one point the plot call for costello to get into drag and disguise himself a her to fool dumbrille . good and funny and abbott and costello nonsense . easily the best of the film they do on that mgm loan out from universal .