(They were a real LA band, produced by John Densmore and Robby Kreiger of The Doors). One of the last times you see Hope as a cowardly goofball, as opposed to the uptight businessman/ dad he would play through the 1960s, although he’s already beginning to slow down some. The movie was a critical and box office failure. Hollywood Victory Caravan. ( Log Out / Furthermore, it is one of Bob Hope’s best performances. These were wholesome times, of course. And it is chock full of (mostly gone to seed) stars! The film is also the cinematic source of the popular holiday song “Silver Bells”, memorably sung by Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, although Bing had had the hit with it the year before. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Jukin Media. This and some typically hilarious turns by W.C. Fields are the main reasons for seeing this picture. Mario Party DS - Puzzle Mode - Bob-omb Breakers [NDS] ... 1940 Movie Trailer. Others in the cast include Gale Sondergaard and George Zucco. If you don’t believe me, look at the picture above! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. I’ve known this one since I was a kid (they used to show it on TV) but it’s grown on me a great deal. There’s a feeble attempt at a feminist slant. BUT it has excellent pedigree, and is fun from beginning to end. Bob Hope’s last starring vehicle and, with its terrible script and 4th string jokes, it comes as no surprise. FIRST MOVIE Going Spanish (1934) BEST MOVIE Bob Hope's USO Christmas in Beirut (1984) WORST MOVIE Stand Up and Cheer for the National Football League's Sixtieth Year (1981) Strangely for a very American film, Bachelor in Paradise had its World Premiere at the Coliseum Theatre in London's West End on November 2, 1961, with a personal appearance from Bob Hope. With Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff. Jim Backus as a shrink. Roy Rogers plays a law man. They play a pair of friends who are bored with their spouses and have an affair. The boy’s father (Jackie Gleason miscast as a cynical, hip and intellectual rock and roll promoter) is against the wedding for being too bourgeois. (He merely lives with his lover, played by Tina Louise, which was pretty racy for back then.). The format is by now a well-worn one: a bunch of relatives and associates are invited to an Old Dark House for the reading of a will…and must stay there overnight, enduring an endless number of artificial and clearly orchestrated frights. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I like Bob Hope! The vehicle truly stretches credibility. Originally a 1922 hit play, The Cat and the Canary went on to become a Universal silent film in 1927, becoming one of that studio’s earliest horror films and helping to establish many conventions of the genre. Verified Purchase. Insufferable insufferable pairing of middle-aged Hope with late career Lucille Ball. Lana Turner had many virtues; comedy wasn’t one of them. An American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter (Aggie). He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. The movie’s idea of being topical is a cameo by Flip Wilson, who shouts his catchphrase, “What you see is what you get!” Still this is a movie I will be glad to watch more than once. John Dehner is a producer. He’s on the lam from the IRS so he goes undercover in a suburban subdivision to study the adulterous ways of American housewives. The 1939 version is one of Hope’s first movies (he’d started at Paramount a year earlier) and the first of three that would pair him with Paulette Goddard. A mixed bag, but a great vehicle. Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover. Based on his reputation he is drafted by the CIA to retrieve a fallen space capsule from the jungle before the Soviets can get there. View all posts by travsd. Other notables in the film include Jay C. Flippen, William Frawley, and none other than Tor Johnson. Personally I love Bob Hope and enjoy him even when he is in a weak film. It’s the sort of business that could have been given to any number of comedians of the day, and many of his jokes as M. C. are downright stinkers. A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the … Not only is it a hoary murder-mystery-premise ala 1940, it is extraordinarily out of touch with changing contemporary culture. In HD. Carroll’s a spy carrying a secret code. The film was co-directed by Frank Tashlin. Along the way he gets to juggle two extremely hot babes, Edie Adams (a CIA agent) and Anita Ekberg, a Soviet spy masquerading as an English missionary with her “father” Lionel Jeffries, also a spy. (It also features Martha Raye and Ben Blue, among others). Heart Breakers and Table Breakers | Boy Band #FAIL. Directed by George Marshall. ( Log Out / And top it off, they revive (exhume) a gimmick from Alias Jesse James (where Bing Crosby and a bunch of other stars make cameos). Unfortuantely the pace of the film is leaden, stopping potential farce from happening. But he was no longer comedy star material from this point going forward, at least in feature films. Retrotari. It’s his pairing with Lucille Ball, at the time a hotter star because of her hit tv series. Now: Bob was 69 when this movie came out. This was towards the end of her career, when appropriate roles for her were becoming increasingly rare. From here the plot has a bit of everything in the service of spook comedy, indeed a bit too much. Doodles Weaver! Bob Hope was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Another post in honor of Bob Hope’s birthday — Here are some thoughts on 20 random Bob Hope movies (not counting the ones he made with Crosby, which I wrote about here). Another post in honor of Bob Hope’s birthday — Here are some thoughts on 20 random Bob Hope movies (not counting the ones he made with Crosby, which I wrote about here).. Rip Torn plays a young theatre director. With Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith. I have no idea why meat-eating, red blooded American Bob Hope was always casting himself against type as writers in his movies, but he did that a lot. 0:43. Bob stayed in vaudeville for a long time — about nine or 10 years. The Best Shows and Movies on Netflix in May. FBI and others begin to hound him, and after a while it even appears that he has killed her. Another awesomely funny story with two of the silver screens greatest comedians! Change ). A.J. But then the daughter gets pregnant. Hope is frequently funny in his cowardice bits…but also frequently creepy in his moments of lechery. “Reservation”?) A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Naturally, along the way he starts to feel bad about the scam, and begins to actually want to help the old folks even as he makes it up to Moose Moran. (He has to review it) Hope’s trying to “act”, to his credit, but the vehicle is kind of dull – so who cares? BIRTHPLACE Eltham. You see, so the film reflects the influences of Aristophanes). The original is regarded as much more of a classic than the Paramount 1939 remake, which is sillier. Though directed by the great Frank Tashlin, this sequel to The Paleface is not nearly as great as the original. This was Hope’s feature film debut, though he had been making shorts for Vitaphone and Educational for four years. This is one of those films that you sense that all the actors – Hope, Raye, Andy Devine, Gale Sondergaard, Alan Mobray – all enjoyed themselves.It was originally supposed to star Jack Benny with an unknown actress - and it's one of those cases that you can't imagine anyone but Bob and Martha, who bring their total madcap silliness, abetted by Andy Devine and company in fine form.- HeathCliff Rothman, former contributor to Vanity Fair, New York Times, USA Today, and specialized in classic film. ): The Lemon Drop Kid is a great mash-up of stuff. She hooks up with cowardly frontier dentist Hope and masquerades as his wife, building up a reputation for him as a tough, unbeatable fighter. I like this movie a lot more than I thought I would. Hope, must stretch in at least two directions in this film: one, to speak the Runyon patois and seem a streetwise heel, and two, to be heartwarming, for in this department Bob Hope is generally no Bing Crosby. As a recognized genius of American comedy, Bob Hope has no equal. There are several extremely embarrassing musical numbers—you could with justification call this a musical. Before they get too far down this errant path, they break it off and go back to their spouses. It was originally intended for Cary Grant but he was unavailable. (A pity his films of the 60s and early 70s leave a lasting lasting impression of a guy who’s just coasting, sleepwalking through his lame vehicles. At any rate, this is one movie this vaudeville dad has often watched with his own kids. This is one of my favorite Bob Hope comedies, and also starred Martha Raye, who was really in sync with his easy-going spontaneous acting style. Bob Hope may be 100 years old as I write this but he has been out of movies for quite a few years, also he only tended to make one type of film and play the same part in each one. With Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore. Niles is pursued by a flirtatious … Bob Hope always credited vaudeville as his school in show business. Approved | 1h 12min | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery | 10 November 1939 (USA) When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow. ( Log Out / He somehow becomes involvd with her through a series of unlikely interactions (not romantically, but it LOOKS incriminating). An unbearable element (and a true symptom of how lacklustre a comedy this is): it has one of those “too many suds coming out of the washing machine” scenes. The Native Americans, sadly, are little more than plot points however, the usual obstacles to be overcome…though on the plus side there are a couple of real Native Americans in the cast, Chief Yowlachie and Iron Eyes Cody (okay so Cody was fake, but the producers THOUGHT he was real! In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival. There’s a tension between their middle age romance and his dismissal of her play. When the truth comes out about the divorce they decide not to get married but live together. The presence of Lucy seems to energize Hope, who’d been coasting for a number of years. The screenplay has a foolproof concept – a hypochondriac millionaire (Hope) gets test results from a dog that erroneously tells him he only has a month to live – multiplied by the fact that one of the screenwriters was Preston Sturges.It’s that ilk of silly 1930s comedy that didn’t take itself too seriously, and wasn’t designed as an “A-list” movie for the ages - which is why it's so lighthearted and silly - but fun! While they throw in perfunctory references to the pill and sex, the entire plot is about “Indians” — and it’s one of those movies that uses Indian stereotypes and never identifies the tribe, to me a sure-fire harbinger of disrespect. Lots of sex talk in the film but Hepburn is 50 and freckly: she reminds me of a schoolteacher or grandmother. 1:05. So the appeal of this film very much depends on whether or not you like that. Bob Hope's Funniest Moments. Hope’s leave is cancelled so that he can interrogate Hepburn. Directed by George Marshall. The premise: when making a phone call businessman Hope is accidentally patched through to the hotel room of Elke Sommer, a movie star who is on the lam because she is tired of having to do nude bathing scenes in her movies. (The soundtrack is especially groovy). He actually conjures that assholey side we’ve often heard about and uses it in his performance. The Breakers Welcome To The Breakers Update_1. Biopic of the political career of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York City from 1926-1932. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / I was alive when this movie came out but never even heard of it until many years later, which should give you some indication of its popularity at the time. In the end, Hope masquerades as the Indian guru and advises the kids to get married and take their baby back. (His stereotypical black servant is played by Willie Best, a.k.a. It’s funny, but wondered what the movie was and if he really … When ducking into a hotel room (thinking he has just shot somebody) Hope meets Paulette, who has just inherited a castle in Cuba. The complications increase when the town believes Arthur to be an Earl, and President Roosevelt … But Lamour saves his skin of course. This bio-pic of Eddie Foy and the kiddie act he created with his large brood wildly distorts Foy’s life and career, making him look like a loser (when in fact he had been a star for decades) until he hits on the bright idea of solving his fatherhood problems by bringing his kids on the road with him. The movie is tedious, clunky, and square — like most comedies from the period. I find it very hard to root for spoiled young rich boys, and it is a flaw in this film). Forrest Tucker! Eva Marie Saint! (This would have been a perfect predicament for Charley Chase’s screen character). And…all sorts of business with pirates. ALSO: Jerry Mathers (the Beaver) plays one of the Foy kids! When people ask me what my favorite vaudeville film is I invariably say The Seven Little Foys. Road to Rio (1947) FULL MOVIE. It's where he learned to love working to live audiences. Directed by Melville Shavelson. 5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Fun! Meanwhile Hope falls in love with a Swedish woman. Tor Johnson! Two Army buddies fall in love with the same nightclub singer. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it. From here, the story gets played too straight for my tastes. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2019. The result is not perfect (he often comes off as just kind of mopey), but is at least interesting. Both are horribly miscast as a husband/wife, critic-playwright couple. And there’s a precocious child. This was Hope’s feature film debut, though he had been making shorts for Vitaphone and Educational for four years. It’s early in the evolution of his … At the end, the traditional Scooby Doo reveal. Email video clip of Bob Hope in a movie comparing zombies to Democrats. His editor (Donald MacBride, the “jumping butterballs” guy from Room Service) recalls him from the field. He plays a radio columnist who likes to drop tidbits about gangsters. His boss forces him to follow James out west and protect his life; meanwhile the outlaw uses Hope as a patsy and he is danger of losing his life. Hope plays the son of the hero of the last movie, a Harvard educated dude in white ducks and an automobile. Here, he is a best-selling author of racy sex advice-books from the perspective of a swinging bachelor. An earlier version in 1934 featuring everybody’s favorite, Lee Tracy in the Hope role. An Indian guru played by Professor Irwin Corey advises them to put the baby up for adoption. As so often happens in these kinds of pictures, it is as much about Hope as it is about Foy. A foreign gentleman shows up with some information about a spy ring and a complicated plot ensues…the stenographer who took down the details of the plot is kidnapped and Hope has to rescue her. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. With Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood. 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