Red Herring

Take three pairs of lovers, add an unsolved murder, several pinches of espionage, and pickle everything in a brine of early Cold War paranoia, and you have the ingredients for a side-splitting black comedy enmeshed in tangled romance. Why is Senator Joseph McCarthy’s daughter dating a would-be traitor? And what’s that supposedly dead Russian fisherman doing pretending to be feisty landlady Mrs. Kravitz’ deaf husband? Did we mention the pair of dogged gumshoes? And how does I Love Lucy and the H-Bomb fit into the plot? This spoof Red Scare drama will keep you reeling with laughter.