I'll Take Sweden
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Movie Reviews of I'll Take Sweden
Movie Review: Bob Hope and Sweden rule!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a superb 60's comedy starring Bob Hope,Tuesday Weld and Frankie Avalon filmed mostly in beautiful Sweden.It's a must see!!!!!!!!Movie Review: I'll Take Sweden
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was exceptionally reasonably priced, arrived promptly and was in great condition. Can't ask for more than that.Movie Review: Paula Giokaris showcase
Summary: 4 Stars
I can only imagine what Swedish people made of this movie way back when but anyone who watched it in the US must have had the urge to go there, for the amazing cinematography shows us a land without a single flaw--well, maybe some of the architecture looks a little bland. Jeremy Slate (as Erik, the Swedish lothario) is driving Tuesday Weld (as JoJo, the American surfer girl) on a tour of Stockholm in a bright red Volkswagen, pointing out all the scenic sights, and he says, "And there is our Royal Palace, of which we are very proud." The screen shows a squarish and rusty building that looks as though it were part of a drinking fountain. Tuesday Weld looks sour as she replies, "You must be very proud." Actually I wonder if any of the stars made it to Sweden, for they could easily be on Hollywood sound stages or up in the hills around LA when they are supposed to be consorting in resort hotels in Sweden.
The movie gets a little tiresome with Bob Hope's obsession, that is, preserving JoJo's virginity at all costs. He seems like a man with an idee fixe and it isn't very healthy. Still he encounters an interesting and opposing point of view, that of Karin, the decorator (Dina Merrill), whose divorce has given her a melancholy wispiness, a divorce she blames entirely on the fact that she and her husband were "strangers" to each other sexually speaking when they wed. Thus, she like every other Swede in the story, is avidly in favor of premarital sex as a way of testing relationships. I wonder if Britney Spears saw this movie... she seems to have drawn on it for relationship advice as well as for fashion tips.
God made the fashions in this movie, God and Paula Giokaris, the little remembered designer responsible for some of the 1960s most outlandish screen costumes. Here there is always something fantastic to watch in every frame. Just the little pink hat in which you first see Dina Merrill would be enough to establish her in the couteriere's hall of fame: the hat that has nothing to do with the yellow skirt and blouse thing Merrill is wearing. Tuesday Weld has one amazing outfit after another; one of the best is a black lame evening gown with Nolan Miller bugle beads and witchy, Steve Nicks style white egret feathers at the end of each sleeve: it looks like a pack of white birds is trying to swallow each of Tuesday's hands.
Jeremy Slate spends the last half of the film trapped in an iridescent plaid-ish sort of sport jacket with subtle rainbow shades of green, blue, violet, and aqua--he looks like a walking rain forest. I can't even describe the various off-white and cream colored suits Bob Hope gets to wear, but Giokaris' masterpiece has got to be the baby blue speedo she manages to encase what looks like plenty of Frankie Avalon in. I had never really thought much of Frankie as an actor before, but seeing him stand up in this baby blue swimsuit, I've changed my mind. It;'s the kind of swimsuit any other man who found himself wearing it would be trying to hide, all bunched up in a knot in some shady corner of the set. But Frankie not only stands up in it, he prances around singing a complete title tune number, on a wooden float overlooking a beautiful Swedish lake and surrounded by two and a half dozen Swedish beach bunnies in wonderful swimwear. "I'll take Sweden, ja, ja, ja," is the theme of the song and indeed of all of fashion history ever since then.
Movie Review: Ring in Nostalgia
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bob Hope character never really aged but the body and film parts did. Here he plays the single father of a teen-aged daughter who, in the traditional way, was having trouble adjusting. The problem for the viewer in 2010 is pretty much the same as the problem one would have watching (or reading about) Marjorie Morningstar deliberating as to whether she should surrender her sacred virginity before marriage. Happily, no writers for Bob Hope would dare slip in a serious three minutes, perhaps they would be allowed one, if there were a big laugh punch line following it. Of course, these are not kids abusing illegal substances, living in communal cesspools, or being hassled by the police for a variety of "out of their mind" deviances. They are kids who are doing early rock and roll and some of the fun dances of the day. Who could accuse the Frankie Avalon and Tuesday Weld of this film of anything worse than....well, perhaps it was the fate worse than death. At any rate, the film is very light fun with Dina Merrill looking beautiful, Tuesday Weld being a model upper middle class teen-ager in love with the next good looking guy who comes her way, and Bob Hope, being the bewildered, funny, father who still gets his girl as well. A few bouncy tunes liven up the proceedings and we know throughout that every one will find the right mate for life by the end of the film.Movie Review: I'II TAKE SWEDEN
Summary: 4 Stars
A WONDERFUL FEEL GOOD MOVIE,WITH MANY AMUSING MOMENTS, THE THE VERY FUNNY BOB HOPE IS CLASSIC,AND FUNNY AT HIS BEST.GREAT SUPPORTING CAST WITH TUESDAY WELDS AND FRANKIE AVALON. A GREAT SATURDAY IN MOVIE.
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