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The Pale Face
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and sneering like a kid playing cowboy in a flamboyant costume apparently stolen from the Oklahoma! road show. The Paleface is one of his best films, and the unflappable Russell is a great match. Theme song "Buttons and Bows" (which Hope delivers with a clowning mock twang) won an Oscar®, and the 1948 film spawned a sequel (Son of Paleface, costarring Roy Rogers and Trigger) and a remake (The Shakiest Gun in the West with Don Knotts). --Sean Axmaker
Hope at his best!
Review date: 2008-01-01 Rating: 10 out of 10
If you like westrns an you have a funnybone this is for you. Hope is out of fashion now because of his right wing leanings later in life but see him at his youthful best here. His one liners are brilliantly delivered and his comedic talent undeniable. My kids (9 and 11) loved it!
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Reviews
You can't beat this type of humour!
Review date: 2007-11-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
Good old clean family fun is about the best way of describing this type of film with Bob Hope at his best playing alongside Jane Russell.Hope is "Painless" Potter a dentist who knows as much about dentistry as he does about gunfighting, but thinks he is a bit of a sharp-shooter when he manages to kill some indians and a jealous gunman but unbeknown to him, Jane Russell aka.Calamity Jane is the real one who is handy with a gun.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jane Russell
Bob Hope
Iris Adrian
Robert Watson
Robert Armstrong
Creators:
Bob Hope (Primary Contributor)
Jane Russell (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
EAN: 5050582403503
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-01-02
Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region code: 2
Running time: 87 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)