"Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and ..."
"Bob Hope is up to his classic shenanigans in Fancy Pants, a loose remake of the comedy favorite Ruggles of Red Gap. Hope plays Humphrey, an American actor playing a British butler in a hokey play in London. When a fortune-hunter hires the cast to help him woo a wealthy American girl (Lucille Ball, playing her character like a female John Wayne), the girl's domineering mother takes a shine to Humphrey and hires him to be their butl ..."
"Monsieur Beaucaire Bob Hope stars as a court barber who turns into a royal pain for his employers. He also happens to fall in love with the beautiful Mimi (Joan Caulfield). But when the king has had enough of his shenanigans, Hope is led to the guillotine. Luckily, the Duc de Chandre, played by Patrick Knowles, rescues Beaucaire. But when he later poses as a nobleman, it seems Hope may have pushed his luck a little too far. Where There ..."
"Double-bill of James Stewart films. In 'Made for Each Other' (1939), John Mason (James Stewart) is a young New York lawyer newly married to the beautiful Jane (Carole Lombard). Their dreams of a wonderful life together fail to materialise in the real world as they endure one great disappointment after another, beginning with John being called to the office urgently on the eve of their honeymoon! The birth of their son provides a much-ne ..."
"Stewart as Jimmy Haskell, a music-loving, harmonica- playing man who comes across a poor but excellent band that rehearses on a boarding house roof. Jimmy becomes interested in the people who own the boarding house, Ma McCorkle and her lovely daughter, Molly. Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and the original theatrical trailer for Stewart’s How The West Was Won."
"While the French were so aristocratic and stuffy, Monsieur Beaucaire cut through their prentensions and showed the true humor of life. A role made for Bob Hope."
"Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and ..."
"Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king."
"Bob Hope is up to his classic shenanigans in Fancy Pants, a loose remake of the comedy favorite Ruggles of Red Gap. Hope plays Humphrey, an American actor playing a British butler in a hokey play in London. When a fortune-hunter hires the cast to help him woo a wealthy American girl (Lucille Ball, playing her character like a female John Wayne), the girl's domineering mother takes a shine to Humphrey and hires him to be their butl ..."