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The Bob Hope Collection
Alias, Jesse James
Starring: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming
&
Many of Hollywood's Legendary Cowboys
Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a
man
a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he
sends
Milford after him with money to buy back the policy. After a masked
Jesse
robs Milford of the money, Milford's boss heads out with more money.
Jesse
learns about it and plans to rob him, have Milford dressed as him get
killed
in the robbery, and then collect the $100,000.
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Bachelor in Paradise
Starring: Bob Hope & Lana Turner
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number
Starring: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer & Phyllis Diller
The Divine D.D., a European actress known more for her
bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with
bubble
baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that
she runs
away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds
up in
Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally
connects her
with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her
some food
and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She
also
asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go
back to
Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and
from his
suspicious housekeeper Millie.
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Call Me B'Wana
Starring: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams,
Arnold
Palmer & Lionel Jefferies
A returning moon capsule with vital information
goes off course and lands in Africa where the little-known Ekele
tribesmen find
it. Washington orders the great African Authority Matthew Merriwether,
an utter
fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude, to go find it. A
foreign
power sends Secret Agent Luba to go
after Matthew and stop at nothing - absolutely nothing - to get it from
him.
Dr. Ezra Mungo is peeved that Luba superseded him, and is sent along
posing as
her father but has plans of his own. All meet and form a safari but
there is
time out for a golf match between Merriwether and Arnold Palmer . After
reaching their destination, with Merriwether madly in love with Luba,
they find
that the Ekeles believe the capsule is a holy talisman and won't give
it up.
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Facts of Life
Starring: Bob
Hope & Lucille Ball
Bob Hope and Lucille Ball heat
things
up as two romantic couples. But they are each married to different
people!
They really DO love each other. At the beginning Kitty (Lucille Ball)
thinks
Larry (Bob Hope) is un-funny, unendurable, and unrelenting. Larry
thinks
Kitty is just plain dull. Then three couples cancel their trip. Kitty
and
Larry are ALONE! At the hotel they go under the silly names of
Mr.George
Washington and Mrs Martha Washington. Then they fall in love while
going
fishing. When Kitty caught her first fish she kissed Larry. Kitty and
Larry
started to spend a lot of time together. Then Kitty writes her husband
a letter telling him that she wants Larry, not him. Then Kitty and
Larry
get into a big fight. They both see that they are making a big mistake.
They thought it wasn't right to have an affair at their age (they were
middle-aged).
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Fancy Pants
Starring: Bob Hope & Lucille Ball
For Love or Money (Un-aired
TV
Pilot)
Starring: Bob
Hope & Janet Leigh
This unaired pilot from 1967
for
a series featuring 2 big name stars failed to make it. Hilariously
funny,
this spy spoof, finds a pair of tourists to a tiny South American
country
being recruited by the US Government, to conduct a subversive mission
for
the sake of international security. All they have to deal with is their
own reluctant State Dept, the inept Dictator, the bumbling army, &
their own incompetence. These 2 make 86 & 99 seem like geniuses!!!
A true rare gem & Must Have for any collector of Hope or Leigh!!
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My Favorite Spy
Starring: Bob Hope & Hedy Lamarr
Peanuts White, a burlesque
comic,
is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric
Augustine
(whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar
microfilm
in mysterious, exotic Tangier. There, he encounters the irresistible
Lily
Dalbray, an "old friend" of Augustine who is now dealing with his
arch-enemy,
Brubaker. But where is the real Eric? Comedy thriller with slapstick
climax.
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The Princess & The Pirate
Starring: Bob Hope,
Virginia
Mayo & Walter Brennan
That Certain Feeling
Starring: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint
& George Sanders
Bob plays Francis X. Dignan, the overly neurotic
"ghost"
for popular comic-strip artist Larry Larkin. When Larkin's syndicate
complains
that his work isn't as amusing as it once was, he anxiously tries to
hire
back Dignan, who walked out on his boss over a petty disagreement.
Dignan
needs the money, but he'd rather do without the aggravation; this won't
be easy, since Larkin is on the verge of marrying Dunreath Henry,
Dignan's
ex-wife. Enusing complications include the pompous Larkin's efforts to
adopt a troublesome young boy as a publicity stunt, and a wild night of
drunken revelry which leads to the rekindling of Dunreath's affection
for
Dignan.
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They Got Me Covered
Starring: Bob
Hope & Dorothy Lamour
Bumbling reporter Robert
Kittredge
has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't
all
he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to
marry
her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington,
D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his
job back. The pair soon finds themselves in several awkward
predicaments
as they track the criminals down in a nightclub, a burlesque show, and
face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
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USO Christmas Show for the
US Troops Stationed Overseas - 1957
Starring: Bob
Hope, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart,
George Burns, Milton Berle,
Dinah Shore & Many More
With a personal introduction
by
President Eisenhower, the first of the joint USO/US
Government/Hollywood,
annual Christmas shows for the troops gets underway. A great number of
Hollywood’s biggest names putting on skits, standup, & musical
numbers
in an effort to say thanks to all the forces stationed overseas in
1957.
As Eisenhower states in the opening, this was shown only to these
troops
and no one else would see this. 1 reel was made for each overseas base.
This is a TRUE COLLECTOR’s ITEM!!! Hope & Berle give two hilarious
stand up routines, Stewart, Burns & Benny perform a comical musical
rendition of MOTHER, Bing sings White Christmas, and many other gems!!
( Please note that there is a 3
second jump in the tape during Bing’s number, this is due to the age of
the original print)
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