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Funny Men Of Film |
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Bob Hope |
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Possibly the world’s greatest comedian, British born Bob conquered all comic mediums, including vaudeville, radio, TV & film. Bob’s show business career began in the early 1930’s & saw him notch up over 60 popular movies, in a life that had him celebrate his 100th Birthday in 2003. |
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Bob Hope’s Top 10 Movies on DVD |
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| Road To Singapore [DVD](1940) DVD At first planned as a vehicle for Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie, this light-hearted adventure featured the first screen pairing of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and the result was movie history. The two are Americans bumming their way around the world who settle down in Asia and almost immediately begin feuding for the hand of Dorothy Lamour. With Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn. 84 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; radio broadcast shows; photo gallery; DVD-ROM content. Road To Zanzibar [DVD](1941) DVD Carnival con men Bob Hope and Bing Crosby find themselves outswindled on a safari scheme by Dorothy Lamour and left to stew in some cannibals' pots in the second "Road" movie. Una Merkel, Eric Blore, Lionel Royce co-star. 92 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; radio broadcast shows; photo galleries; DVD-ROM content. My Favorite Blonde(1942) VHS Rip-roaring comic yarn starring Bob Hope as a wise-cracking entertainer who becomes involved with a beautiful British woman carrying secret military plans the Nazis are after. Bob and his penguin sidekick join the spy as they dodge the bad guys in a cross-country chase. Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard and George Zucco co-star. 78 min. Road To Morocco [DVD](1942) DVD Shipwreck survivors Bob Hope and Bing Crosby wind up on the Mediterranean coast and take a camel ride into a comedic Arabian Nights-style adventure, as the pair wind up fighting with desert warrior Anthony Quinn for princess Dorothy Lamour. Among the songs featured is the Crosby standard "Moonlight Becomes You." 83 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; radio broadcast shows; photo gallery; DVD-ROM content. My Favorite Brunette [DVD](1947) DVD While looking after his detective neighbor's office, baby photographer Bob Hope's dream of being a private eye lands him on Death Row in this laugh-a-minute spoof. Hired by lovely Dorothy Lamour to track down her missing uncle, Hope tangles with crooks Charles Dingle, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Peter Lorre and winds up framed for murder. 87 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. The Paleface [DVD](1948) DVD Bob Hope is a daffy dentist and a shaky gun; Jane Russell is the gorgeous gunslinger Calamity Jane, and together they tame the Wild West with laughter in one of Bob's best comedies. Features the Oscar-winning song "Buttons and Bows." 91 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby mono; Subtitles: French, Spanish; vintage Hope clips; biographies; production notes; DVD-ROM content; photo gallery; trailer. The Lemon Drop Kid(1951) VHS When racetrack tout Bob Hope finds himself in hot water with the mob, he hits upon a fast money-making racket: phony Santa Clauses collecting for an "old folk's home." Fast-paced comedy, from Damon Runyon's story, also stars Lloyd Nolan, William Frawley, Marilyn Maxwell. 91 min. Son Of Paleface(1952) VHS A hilarious vehicle for Bob Hope, who plays "Junior" Potter, the Harvard graduate who ventures out West to claim the inheritance of his frontier "hero" pa. Jane Russell is the saloon-singing object of Hope's affections--and wisecracks, and Roy Rogers and Trigger play themselves. 95 min. Paris Holiday(1958) VHS The City of Lights becomes the City of Laughs when Bob Hope travels to Paris to buy a French playwright's latest work and winds up getting involved with gangsters and lovely Anita Ekberg (What's not to like?). Co-stars French comic Fernandel and director Preston Sturges. 100 min. The Road To Hong Kong [DVD](1962) DVD This finale to the classic "Road" series features Bob and Bing travelling to the Far East and getting involved with top-secret espionage concerning rocket fuel plans. Joan Collins is their femme foil, and there are cameos by the likes of Peter Sellers, Dean Martin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Frank Sinatra and, yes, Dorothy Lamour. 91 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailer.
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