The Ghost Breakers (1940), My Favorite Blonde (1942), Road to Morocco (1942), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Road to Rio (1947), Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), Son of Paleface (1952), My Favorite Brunette (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bob Hope movies.
Storyline: Graft is rampant in the government of a "mythical" Louisiana, and the arrival of U.S. Senate investigator Loganberry brings panic. The chief miscreants shift the blame on to their innocent tool, Jim Taylor, who to save himself must "compromise" the simon-pure Senator Loganberry. As his instrument, Jim selects Marina Von Minden, beautiful Viennese refugee. But matters become complicated when Jim falls for Marina... and she takes a liking for the Senator.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, political satire, historical, american, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stanley Snodgrass, perhaps Broadway's clumsiest (if not oldest and most out-of-tune) chorus boy, finds himself unceremoniously ousted from yet another show. Due to an infamous slasher threatening the show's leads, Stanley finds himself brought back as the headliner, unaware that he's being used as bait by police. Even with Detective Logan secretly posing as Stanley's valet, producer Harry Fraser fears Jack the Slasher may not put in an appearance soon enough to prevent Stanley murdering his show.—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 1950s, bob hope, show business, dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot. His luck quickly changes when it's discovered that his bank discovers a substantial money shortage in their books. Now Hope and his large family are forced to take it on the lam. His children's baby-sitter Phyllis Diller protects Hope from her dim-witted cop boyfriend Jonathan Winters while he hides out, hoping to get to the true cause of his dilemma. Past and future "Bond Girls" Shirley Eaton ("Goldfinger") and Jill St. John ("Diamonds Are Forever") play a schoolteacher and a gold-digger and Winters plays his own mother!—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, crime, adventure, humor, children, money ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American comedian Bob Hunter, on a luxury liner to France with French counterpart Fernandel, takes an interest in blonde diplomat Ann McCall while pursued by an even shapelier blonde, the mysterious Zara, who seems to be after something in Bob's possession. But he's only going to France to obtain rights to a new play...so what are Zara and her sinister boss after? The pursuit, amorous and larcenous, continues in Paris and escalates into a full-fledged comedy thriller.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, american film, 1950s, paris, bob hope ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, spy, cold war, africa, american film, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, cold war, military, political satire, american film, british film ...
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