The Paleface

The Paleface
by Norman Z. McLeod

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Actor: Bob Hope, Bobby Watson, Iris Adrian, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: The Paleface
Summary: 5 Stars

One of Bob Hope's best comedies of his illustrious career! I'm tempted to call this an essential movie, it's just that good. Funny doesn't quite describe what goes on here. Jane Russell is his co-star; many have said that she wasn't a good actress but it doesn't matter, after all, it's Hope's film, not hers.

Painless Peter Potter (Bob Hope) decides to go west to seek his fortune. But if you think it's because Horace Greely said, "Go West, young man," you'll be wrong. Potter as a dentist isn't painless, he's about as inept as one can be. Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), an outlaw in this case, is convinced by the government to go undercover. She's promised a pardon if she'll help capture a gunrunner, Terris (Robert Armstrong). It's inevitable that Potter & Calamity cross paths. They get married giving her a better cover & she manages to make Potter look like he's the undercover agent. It's hilarious to see Potter doing all of these incredible shooting feats, he's even more inept with a gun than he is at dentistry, when it's Calamity making the shots from behind the scenes.

Bob Hope's screen personna of the irresistible (so he thinks) ladies man, inept, cowardly & (a lack of) control of his destiny, has never been showcased any better than here. He's got it down to a tee now. We even get the song, "Buttons & Bows", which was an Academy award winner for best song for 1948. Potter's rescue of Calamity is classic comedy, even Potter gets it right one time. One of the funniest scenes in the film involves Potter all dressed in gunfighter garb getting advice from everyone telling how to do the gunfight. It's hilarious to see Potter looking for his adversary, reciting all the advice & getting it more confused with each recital.

The quality of the video is excellent & there are some bonus features, mostly career highlights.

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Summary of The Paleface

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

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