But he was no longer comedy star material from this point going forward, at least in feature films. Email video clip of Bob Hope in a movie comparing zombies to Democrats. It's where he learned to love working to live audiences. The long chain of events winds up with him getting drugged and married to a bimbo at Niagara Falls in an attempt to discredit him. Learn how your comment data is processed. ... Hope for the Holidays: The Best of Bob Hope. A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. He is due to marry a British aristocrat but falls in love with Hepburn. Bob Hope: The Ultimate Movie Collection features 21 of the funniest movies from the legendary comedian. To break the couple up, Hope takes a job at his company’s Stockholm office (first framing Avalon with another girl so the daughter will want to go). Of course when they get to Sweden, the sexual customs are much more advanced than Americans are used to and Weld winds up with a young man whom Hope finds even more objectionable, eventually sending for Avalon. (He has to review it) Hope’s trying to “act”, to his credit, but the vehicle is kind of dull – so who cares? Keenan Wynn! With Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian. 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. Hope plays a roving jester. Hope is paired with the irresistible Paulette Goddard, here on break between pictures with her then-leading man Charlie Chaplin. Like most of Hope’s early films, this is an ensemble piece. Hope’s parody of The 39 Steps and Saboteur, costarring the former film’s Madeline Carroll (whom Hope often mentioned as a sex symbol on his radio show). One day he tells too much and has to take it on the lam. 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. And likewise, Lucy brings her A game to her teaming with an American institution. Lana Turner had many virtues; comedy wasn’t one of them. (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. 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. Along the way he is aided and abetted by his maid, Phyllis Diller, who wants to prevent Hope’s wife from finding out. Two Army buddies fall in love with the same nightclub singer. 1:05. 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. Hope is definitely in his decline here. Somehow it all resolves itself (mostly because Tina threatens not to have sex with Jackie Gleason any more unless he does a turn around and sides with Hope and Wyman. Yes! 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. As a recognized genius of American comedy, Bob Hope has no equal. I laughed all the way through this movie, absolutely full of funny lines and bits and Hope is hysterical—at the peak of his form. Other cool stuff: a Saul Bass title sequence, a theme song by Steve and Edie and cast members like Louie Nye and Carolyn Jones. Bob Hope always credited vaudeville as his school in show business. 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. Plot. ( Log Out /  So the appeal of this film very much depends on whether or not you like that. I like this movie a lot more than I thought I would. 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 soundtrack is especially groovy). Heart Breakers and Table Breakers | Boy Band #FAIL. And we go to her castle where we seem to have ghosts and zombies, etc. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Hope is frequently funny in his cowardice bits…but also frequently creepy in his moments of lechery. But Lamour saves his skin of course. Forrest Tucker! These were wholesome times, of course. But then the daughter gets pregnant. Report abuse. But also he’s not playing a character…this all American guy does not seem like a theatre critic. The pair have a certain chemistry but the lines coming out of their mouths sound all wrong, they don’t possess the necessary intellectuality. https://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?actor=Bob+Hope&perpage=20 Directed by George Marshall. Since it was originally intended as a vehicle for Hepburn both she and Hecht were furious. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. 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. View all posts by travsd. 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. Ghost Breakers came out a little bit before Hope became a top star; his character still hasn’t completely gelled. (They were a real LA band, produced by John Densmore and Robby Kreiger of The Doors). Other notables in the film include Jay C. Flippen, William Frawley, and none other than Tor Johnson. I liked this one much more than I thought I would. He goes undercover under the alias "Jack Adams" in a California suburban community called Paradise Village to research a new book about the wives and lives there. At any rate, this is one movie this vaudeville dad has often watched with his own kids. He plays a radio columnist who likes to drop tidbits about gangsters. An earlier version in 1934 featuring everybody’s favorite, Lee Tracy in the Hope role. When the truth comes out about the divorce they decide not to get married but live together. Directed by George Marshall. From here, the story gets played too straight for my tastes. A British Cold war comedy written by Ben Hecht, pairing Bob Hope as an air force officer (just go with it) with Russian defector Katharine Hepburn! With Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith. Personally I love Bob Hope and enjoy him even when he is in a weak film. Unfortuantely the pace of the film is leaden, stopping potential farce from happening. Carroll’s a spy carrying a secret code. A mixed bag, but a great vehicle. It’s early in the evolution of his comedy character — here he is broken out of “alimony jail” so he can be master of ceremonies for a broadcast on an ocean liner, all the while on the lam from three ex-wives. Road to Rio (1947) FULL MOVIE. The stakes are zilch. Insufferable insufferable pairing of middle-aged Hope with late career Lucille Ball. But it did provide the world with the introduction to what would become his permanent theme song “Thanks for the Memories”, and a magical scene that it is. Bob Hope was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Mario Party DS - Puzzle Mode - Bob-omb Breakers [NDS] ... 1940 Movie Trailer. J. Harris. (Not that Hope is at this age either). Directed by Melvin Frank. His editor (Donald MacBride, the “jumping butterballs” guy from Room Service) recalls him from the field. Another awesomely funny story with two of the silver screens greatest comedians! This allows him to get mistaken for a shamus himself by Dorothy Lamour. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Sleep n Eat). Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Jukin Media. 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. One thing you could not call Hope was lazy). I think that would have been great. 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. Hope of course gets drawn into the intrigue, kicking and screaming all the way. This is two years after Little Big Man. In the end, Hope masquerades as the Indian guru and advises the kids to get married and take their baby back. VFM Leonardo. And if there isn’t enough revisiting of tired material, he brings in the “old guy riding on the back of a motorcycle” business from I’ll Take Sweden and Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. (His stereotypical black servant is played by Willie Best, a.k.a. ALSO: Jerry Mathers (the Beaver) plays one of the Foy kids! At the end, the traditional Scooby Doo reveal. Hope and Wyman pretend to be a Scottish couple and kidnap the baby. With Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas. The movie was a critical and box office failure. Verified Purchase. 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. 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. When ducking into a hotel room (thinking he has just shot somebody) Hope meets Paulette, who has just inherited a castle in Cuba. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. From here the plot has a bit of everything in the service of spook comedy, indeed a bit too much. 14:48. The vehicle truly stretches credibility. Woven all through this is the psycedhelic music of a band called The Comfortable Chair which Gleason’s character represents. She hooks up with cowardly frontier dentist Hope and masquerades as his wife, building up a reputation for him as a tough, unbeatable fighter. Eva Marie Saint! Bob Hope's Funniest Moments. It pairs Hope with Dorothy Lamour, and the movie is very similar in tone to the Road Pictures. 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. So he has to organize an expedition, using the pretense that he is out to destroy a rogue elephant as a cover. Now: Bob was 69 when this movie came out. John Dehner is a producer. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. They play a pair of friends who are bored with their spouses and have an affair. It’s funny, but wondered what the movie was and if he really … There are several extremely embarrassing musical numbers—you could with justification call this a musical. Once Hope was aboard he brought his writers in to beef up the jokes for his part, then he had several of Hepburn’s scenes cut. He plays a life insurance salesman in the old west — who accidentally sells some life insurance to Jesse James! Retrotari. And…all sorts of business with pirates. When people ask me what my favorite vaudeville film is I invariably say The Seven Little Foys. Hope is supposed to be fired or suspended but simply acts like he’s still working for the paper. Because it takes place at Christmas it’s at least sort of “honorable mention” holiday film, and does promote generosity. 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 one on the other hand is hilarious. 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. The film was co-directed by Frank Tashlin. Jane Russell returns as his love interest, although oddly she has nothing to do now with Calamity Jane. The deceased father has been revised to being (or seeming to have been) an actual frontier hero, one whose shadow the son must now live under. I like Bob Hope! Lots of sex talk in the film but Hepburn is 50 and freckly:  she reminds me of a schoolteacher or grandmother. 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. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). It’s an interesting film because both performers are just about to break out as stars but haven’t yet done so. Not to mention Chief Dan George, Henry Darrow, and Pat Morita! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton often played them. Doodles Weaver! Bob Hope in the 1940 film The Ghost Breakers. 0:43. 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. The Best Shows and Movies on Netflix in May. Marilyn Maxwell plays Bob’s ex wife. And he pulls it off for the most part. He seems really subdued, definitely phoning it in, thinking about his golf game. In addition to the sex plot, Hepburn’s character also gets gradually converted to capitalism. With Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries. The Breakers Welcome To The Breakers Update_1. And it is chock full of (mostly gone to seed) stars! Ralph Belamy! It’s early in the evolution of his … With Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff. It’s a Damon Runyon story, not unlike Guys and Dolls. And there’s a precocious child. Hope is a baby photographer with an office right across from private eye Alan Ladd. 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).. Some of the jokes are very funny. Bob stayed in vaudeville for a long time — about nine or 10 years. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! ( Log Out /  It’s his pairing with Lucille Ball, at the time a hotter star because of her hit tv series. A.J. Bob Hope Movies; Bob Hope Filmography Movies Awards. ): The Lemon Drop Kid is a great mash-up of stuff. It’s time to hang up that golf hat. 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. Hope plays the son of the hero of the last movie, a Harvard educated dude in white ducks and an automobile. Bob Hope in "The Ghost Breakers" Rupert Deshaun. Visit http://www.imasportsphile.com to watch more sports videos and read more historical sports articles. And top it off, they revive (exhume) a gimmick from Alias Jesse James (where Bing Crosby and a bunch of other stars make cameos). BUT it has excellent pedigree, and is fun from beginning to end. Before they get too far down this errant path, they break it off and go back to their spouses. Furthermore, it is one of Bob Hope’s best performances. 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! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Big Broadcast of 1938. Comedian . Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers that he has a large tax debt owed to the IRS, due to being ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger. Hollywood Victory Caravan. With Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore. 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. 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. There’s a feeble attempt at a feminist slant. 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). (This would have been a perfect predicament for Charley Chase’s screen character). As so often happens in these kinds of pictures, it is as much about Hope as it is about Foy. A.J. Not only is it a hoary murder-mystery-premise ala 1940, it is extraordinarily out of touch with changing contemporary culture. Hope plays a gambler and tout who accidentally causes a gangster (Fred Clark) to lose $10,000. The complications increase when the town believes Arthur to be an Earl, and President Roosevelt … Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr play bad guys. But retirement seems kind of a drastic choice. BIRTHDAY 1903-05-29 . Sophisticated comedy with Bob and Lucy leaving their spouses for an interlude together. Jim Backus as a shrink. 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. The people around her seem shady — we know something is off. Helpful. Writer and performer Trav S.D. The film’s best moments are when Diller, in black sunglasses and a pink house coat rides around on a motorcycle, her wild hair flowing in the breeze. He and his wife (Jane Wyman) postpone their divorce when their daughter shows up determined to marry her boyfriend (Tim Matheson.) Hope’s cowardly, lecherous character was never in finer form than in this film; when I last saw it a few years ago I don’t think I ever once stopped laughing during the entire movie. 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. It’s kind of an indelible image…that alone makes it a memorable movie. Norman McLeod’s last movie (although he continued to direct television after this) and Bob Hope’s last comedy western. 1:02. This was Hope’s feature film debut, though he had been making shorts for Vitaphone and Educational for four years. He somehow becomes involvd with her through a series of unlikely interactions (not romantically, but it LOOKS incriminating). The presence of Lucy seems to energize Hope, who’d been coasting for a number of years. Both are horribly miscast as a husband/wife, critic-playwright couple. It’s an interesting performance. CarlDuke. Hope plays a widowed businessman, Tuesday Weld is his slightly wild daughter who wants to marry her worthless beach bum boyfriend Frankie Avalon. Tor Johnson! The movie is tedious, clunky, and square — like most comedies from the period. Hope plays a vaudevillian whose partner is a penguin named Percy. (It also features Martha Raye and Ben Blue, among others). 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. Bob Hope’s last starring vehicle and, with its terrible script and 4th string jokes, it comes as no surprise. He’s on the lam from the IRS so he goes undercover in a suburban subdivision to study the adulterous ways of American housewives. It is also an awesome contrast antidote to cheap ad hoc WWII propaganda like Air Raid Wardens. But it was a huge hit with audiences. The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins and a Dorothy Lamour cameo. These two clowns did it again! With Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood. He is vigorously pursued by one (Janis Paige) but truly falls for another one, who is renting him his house (Lana Turner). The two meet again aboard ship: Hope is fleeing town; Goddard traveling to her estate. Rip Torn plays a young theatre director. 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). 5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Fun! 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. They’re both trying to give good, serious performances with plenty of dramatic moments, and they just about pull it off. Hilarious Bob Hope western comedy (directed by the great Norman McLeod) co-stars Jane Russell as Calamity Jane (working undercover for the federal government to catch a gang of gunrunners to the Indians). Directed by Gordon Douglas. You see, so the film reflects the influences of Aristophanes). Hope plays an author who represents himself in his books as an African explorer, but it’s fabricated, stolen from the journals of his uncle, an actual explorer. I was surprised to find it very funny in spots, and most valuable perhaps is the finale, where several major western stars of the day (plus Bing Crosby) make cameos during a big shoot out. Others in the cast include Gale Sondergaard and George Zucco. 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. But this is a terrific family film (I first saw it on tv when I was a kid), which does convey many realities of life in show business. Though directed by the great Frank Tashlin, this sequel to The Paleface is not nearly as great as the original. This was towards the end of her career, when appropriate roles for her were becoming increasingly rare. The result is not perfect (he often comes off as just kind of mopey), but is at least interesting. The gorgeous Virginia Mayo is a princess on the run from an arranged marriage. Beginning with Road to Singapore the films also included in-joke references to other Hollywood actors and jabs at Paramount Pictures, the studio that released all the films except for The Road to Hong Kong.There are also frequent instances in which Bob Hope breaks the fourth wall to address the audience directly, such as in Road to Bali, in which he says, "[Crosby]'s gonna sing, … Change ). A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the … Hepburn’s character is not a political defector in the film, she is a devout communist, a fighter pilot who leaves Russia because she was passed over for a promotion. There are much better Bob Hope movies to watch then this one. (I’ve never quite understood the appeal of such heros. BIRTHPLACE Eltham. In order to pay it back, he starts an old folks home so he can raise donations. Read more. As in the best Hope vehicles, he rises to the occasion in the end—with the predictable climax with the two of them tied to burning stakes. There’s a tension between their middle age romance and his dismissal of her play. She is funny enough, plays it broad and cartoonish, but at this stage I am sorry to say that while she is right for this role (very much seems an inspiration for Cate Blanchett in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) she is not an attractive love interest. He is actually trying to stretch here, to do some dramatic acting, as well as revive the singing and dancing skills that had served him well in vaudeville and on Broadway. A find this film a most enjoyable experience even though Hope is far from his best. Hope would seldom be this goofy again. Directed by Melville Shavelson. 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) 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. It was originally intended for Cary Grant but he was unavailable. Hope is a ne-er do well newspaper reporter who missed the story of Hitler invading Russia. I find it very hard to root for spoiled young rich boys, and it is a flaw in this film). Many more are embarrassing hackwork. Roy Rogers plays a law man. Directed by George Marshall. This and some typically hilarious turns by W.C. Fields are the main reasons for seeing this picture. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2019. 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. Bob Hope, Bing ... - YouTube In HD. An interesting element: a young Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss play a newlywed couple. (He merely lives with his lover, played by Tina Louise, which was pretty racy for back then.). Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. In some respects he looks kind of good — he could pass for 59. FBI and others begin to hound him, and after a while it even appears that he has killed her. (A 1930 talkie version by Universal called The Cat Creeps is now lost). It should be remade. If you don’t believe me, look at the picture above! The original is regarded as much more of a classic than the Paramount 1939 remake, which is sillier. Hope’s leave is cancelled so that he can interrogate Hepburn. … Biopic of the political career of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York City from 1926-1932. This was Hope’s feature film debut, though he had been making shorts for Vitaphone and Educational for four years. 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