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

reading a newspaper, toupee, bound and gagged, product placement, walkie talkie, alarm, protest, placard, upskirt, electric razor, drunken man, drunken woman, climbing out a window, tape recorder, large family, robbery, horse jumping, teepee, golf course, false accusation

Short Review

Bob Hope has given the screen some of its most amusing moments, but Eight on the Lam, unfortunately, contains none of them.

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