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Summary: SIMPLY GREAT !
Review: As a French (currently living in Switzerland), I have never had the opportunity to be that familiar with Bob Hope and his humor, therefore I bought this DVD at random...and I simply hit the ceiling ! First of all, on the technical point of view, the transfer is absolutely exceptional (when you'll watch the trailer, you shall see the difference !) , glorious black and white, great sound with lots of dubbing (Argh !) and subtitles.
The story is very light but amusing, typical of those WWII comedies and the lines of Hope...Mama mia ! you can die for them !
It is so hilarious that I already watched it twice in 3 months
So do not hesitate to purchase it , even if the price ... appears to me to be too excessive ...
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Summary: Lovely Slice of the 1940's
Review: I was born in 1952, but would come home from gradeschool to find 1940's movies being played on the local TV station. I fell in love with the strange world of the 1940's, which was so very different from the late 50's. This movie is a delightful romp, as Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamore fight Nazi terrorists and spies in Washington DC who are planning to attack American cities enmass, poisoning the water, blowing up power stations, the type of thing the Bush Administration is always trying to scare us about. I suppose this shows my political bias, but at one point in the movie, a character says that she will no longer work with the Nazi's since she values the freedom in this country. My immediate thought that was with the Patriot Acts 1 and 2, it is from INTERNAL sources that we now have to worry about our freedom, whereas in the 1940's it was the external enemy that wanted to turn us into a police state. Anyway, this movie is delightful in giving a slice of the popular culture at that time, the wonderful tailored clothes, bizarre women's hair styles, the GI Joe patriotism, and most importantly the laughs which haven't aged a day since 1942, all the way up to the hilarious conclusion when members of all branches of the military join Bob and Dorothy in saving the USA! If you enjoy WW2 memorabilia, this movie may be a fun experience for you. If you are a baby boomer like me who was raised on such black/white movies on TV after school, it will be a nostalgic look back wards. This is the REAL THING, not some modern movie made to re-enact the WW2 days. In a wierd sense, this is a very sweet movie when Bob and Dorothy were young and vital, and the world was in great danger, and yet we all had time to laugh.
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Summary: Another Good Wartime Hope Comedy
Review: No one did more for the morale not only of our fighting men in WWII, but of the nation in general, than Bob Hope. Hope teams again with "road" co-star Dorothy Lamour in this wartime comedy from 1943.
Hope Plays a bumbling news correspondent who uncovers an Nazi spy ring. In an adventure that takes him to Moscow, New York City, Washington, D.C. and Niagara Falls, Hope runs across international cutthroats, femme fatales, undercover agents, blond burlesque queens, Axis saboteurs, a crazy Civil War vet, and (sort of-spoiler here) an unforgettable fellow airplane passenger. All of the riotous mayhem culminates in a hilarious conclusion in Washington beauty salon where Hope outwits the villains in a way that has to been seen to be believed.
Otto Preminger co-stars as the Nazi Ring leader Fauscheim. This was one of the better Scripts that Hope had in the 1940's (aside from the Road movies) and really shows off his comedic timing well.
I mean yeah it's all sterotypical wartime propaganda but it's all darn funny too.
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