Okay, maybe we were just in a silly mood... or maybe we were expecting so little from this forgotten Cold War comedy... but the darn thing ended up being highly enjoyable and affable, and we ended up liking it, to our own big surprise. Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss are a comedy team here, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this thing (from a story by Blake Edwards) was conceived as Abbott and Costello meet the A-Bomb. Uranium prospectors, our heroes blunder into a desert house filled with dummies and an empty refrigerator (I'm certain this film inspired a very similar sequence in that fourth, awful Indiana Jones picture) and, while Strauss heads back to town to file their claim, Rooney gets hisself all blowed up (while eating a peanut butter sandwich on bread that instantly turns to toast). Well, he survives and falls in love with his pretty nurse (Elaine Devry, a/k/a Mrs. Mickey Rooney, and she's billed with both names. She's beautiful - and how - but can't act and has no skill at comedy. She's REALLY beautiful, though). Her best line: 'I always pictured my dream man as tall, dark, and handsome, not short, red-headed and radioactive.' Naturally, enemy agents want to learn Rooney's survival skills, and the unimpressed FBI agents decide to let them have him, so they can draw 'em out in the open and capture the Red leader. Silly, as I said, and kid stuff, really, on a par with a Disney live-action comedy or a TV sitcom or maybe Zotz!, but I don't care... I laughed several times, and thought Rooney & Strauss made an acceptable comedy team. Plus, Mickey gets that same phosphorus glow that Lon Chaney, Jr. got in Man Made Monster. (Now wouldn't THAT be a great double feature!) This is one I'll rewatch. The Blu-ray, par for the course with Olive, looks great, although word on the street is the film should be 1.66:1 OAR and not the 1.37:1 presented here (I really didn't notice much marring by the wrong OAR in this case). That aside, one of the better vintage comedy offerings from our friends at Olive Films, and a really, really good offering for a Family Viewing Night (paired with a Betty Boop cartoon or two, naturally).