The Princess and the Pirate
by David Butler, Sidney Lanfield
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Actor: Bob Hope, Victor McLaglen, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter SlezakDirector: David Butler, Sidney Lanfield
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Allen Boretz
Writer: Curtis Kenyon
Writer: Don Hartman
Writer: Everett Freeman
Writer: Melville Shavelson
Writer: Melvin Frank
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Princess and the Pirate
Movie Review: TYPICAL HOPE FARCE
Summary: 4 Stars
Hope is zany, Viginia Mayo is lucious, good fun, a few belly laughs and Crosby wins in the end as usual.
Summary of The Princess and the Pirate
The legendary Bob Hope takes to the high seas in this hilarious, Oscar?(r)-nominated* romantic comedy co-starring Virginia Mayo, Walter Slezak, Walter Brennan and Victor McLaglen! Sylvester the Great (Hope) is a 17th-century entertainer with an act so atrocious, he's exiled from England. Aboard a ship bound for America, he finds himself falling for the beautiful Princess Margaret(Mayo), a woman uninterested in lovenot to mention his lousy one-liners. But when an evil band of pirates attacks the ship and captures the princess, her only hope is the cowardly comedian. Can Sylvester stop cracking jokes and muster the courage to rescue his royal love? In other words, will heand Margaret end up walking down the aisle or walking the plank? *1944: Art Direction (Color); Nonmusical ScoreBob Hope is in top form in this Technicolor parody of pirate pictures, doing his best vaudeville shtick as an inept performer trying to save princess Virginia Mayo from the evil clutches of governor Walter Slezak and pirate Victor McLaglen. It's all ridiculous fun, of course, but if you're a fan of Hope, you never tire of his self-effacing gags and double-entendres. His out-of-place show biz jabs were always clever, and they're all the funnier in this period setting--particularly the Bing Crosby jokes. But Walter Brennan nearly steals the film as a wacky pirate scheming to steal buried treasure, and tattooing the map on Hope's chest. Yet the two best routines are when Hope tries to conceal his chest while taking a bath with Slezak, and when he tries to impersonate McLaglen as "the Hook." --Bill Desowitz
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