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Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection (Alias Jesse James/Boy, Did I Get the Wrong Number/The Facts of Life/I'll Take Sweden/The Princess and the Pirate/The Road to Hong Kong/They've Got Me Covered) |  | Directors: George Marshall, Frederick De Cordova, Sidney Lanfield
Actors: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 19901
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 7
Running Time: 672 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 2
MPN: 109683
UPC: 027616096838
EAN: 0027616096838
ASIN: B000WC3A08
Theatrical Release Date: June 8, 1966
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Give the gift of laughter this holiday season with MGM Movie Legends Gift Set featuring America's favorite entertainer. Bob Hope! Disc 1: Alias Jesse James WP Disc 2: Boy Do I Have The Wrong Number WP Disc 3: The Facts of Life WP Disc 4: I'll Take Sweden WS Disc 5: Princess and The Pirate P&S Disc 6: Road to Hong Kong WS Disc 7: They've Got Me Covered P&S Format: DVD MOV |
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Amazon.com
Bob Hope had a gift: He could be lecherous, cowardly, squirrelly, gullible, and dimwitted, yet somehow make it all endearing. At his best, the result was wonderful comedy--at his worst, the result was belabored schtick. The Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection has a little of both ends of the spectrum. The most "classic" Bob Hope picture in this set is Alias Jesse James, in which Hope plays an insurance salesman who, after selling an expensive policy to the famous outlaw, then has to go West and protect him so his beneficiary can't collect. The hapless fool rises to heroic heights by accident and mistaken identity; it's Hope's favorite storyline and he clearly enjoys himself. A host of Western stars--from James Arness (Gunsmoke) to Gary Cooper (High Noon) make cameo appearances. The Road to Hong Kong is the last Hope & Crosby Road to movie, and while the formula (preposterous plot, good-looking gal, and lots of jokes about being in a movie) is wearing thin, there are still plenty of pleasures to be had. The duo play con men who find themselves in possession of a secret rocket fuel formula after Hope loses his memory, which leads them into the clutches of James-Bond-style megalomaniac (Robert Morley, The Loved One). Dorothy Lamour appears, but it's pretty much an extended cameo; a young Joan Collins provides most of the eye-candy. The mid-60s sex farce Boy, Did I Get Wrong Number! doesn't have much to offer. Elke Sommer plays a starlet weary of always being naked in a bubble bath (naturally, this movie misses no opportunity to put her naked in a bubble bath); when she runs away, she crosses the path of flop real estate agent Hope, who ends up accused of her murder. Hope puts hardly a smidge of effort into his usual stream of one-liners; most of the movie's energy comes from Phyllis Diller, who approaches her gags like a heavyweight boxer, putting her full body into every one. I'll Take Sweden is a pleasant surprise; what initially seems like a typical teen exploitation movie starring Frankie Avalon and Tuesday Weld, with Hope along as Weld's befuddled father, turns into a sly cross-culture satire when Hope takes his daughter to Sweden so she won't marry Avalon--only to discover the European morals may pose a greater threat to her virtue than bohemian hijinx. The result is like a pop version of Henry James, peppered with zippy musical numbers. But the true gem of this collection is The Facts of Life. Hope and Lucille Ball are married to other people; they've known each other a long time and never liked each other, but when a trip to Mexico forces them together, they fall in love. This middle-aged love story is a comedy, but shot through with a bittersweet awareness of the compromises of life. Hope and Ball are both superb, giving their comic skills an yearning melancholy that perfectly expresses the Academy-Award-nominated screenplay. Not to be missed. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Give the gift of laughter this holiday season with MGM Movie Legends Gift Set featuring America's favorite entertainer... Bob Hope!Disc 1: Alias Jesse James WPDisc 2: Boy Do I Have The Wrong Number WPDisc 3: The Facts of Life WPDisc 4: I'll Take Sweden WSDisc 5: Princess and The Pirate P&SDisc 6: Road to Hong Kong WSDisc 7: They've Got Me Covered P&SSystem Requirements:Running Time: 671 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 027616096838 Manufacturer No: M109683
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 alias jesse james October 8, 2009
Duane Halvorson
bob hope was in a class of his own. clever, witty, funny. he had true natural ability to make people laugh. most of the time i found that i was laughing at myself for saying or doing the same things he does. a great man.
Classic Bob June 16, 2009
Janis A. Green (Tennessee)
A light hearted way to spend a evening. I did not realize that Mr. Hope could dance so well.
 All this for one movie March 20, 2009
B. Bates (Santa Fe, NM USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This package is a bunch of movies I never knew that Bob had a part in. But, I only wanted the movie "Boy Did I Get the Wrong Number". That movie is not released individually, so I had to buy the whole package and threw away the others.
the whole collection October 9, 2008
Joseph F. Pandolfi (san jose,calif.usa)
this is a fun collection of some old but steady Bob Hope comedies. The older ones:jesse james,princess and pirate,hong kong and personal favorite, got me covered are classic and timeless.if your a Hope fan these alone are worth the cost.the other 3 movies are a little dated but also fun to watch with the whole family. Bob Hope movies are always entertaning and seldom disapointing.
Thanks for (some of) the memories October 5, 2008
mrliteral
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It may be safe to say that Bob Hope is a Hollywood legend. He achieved this status through some decent acting and comic timing, along with his USO tours and a few really good movies (most notably, his Road pictures with Bing Crosby). Somewhere along the way, however, I think Bob Hope became a bit of a caricature of himself and his later work didn't really display how good he once was. The MGM Movie Legends Collection of seven of his movies shows the gradual decline in the quality of his work. (To be fair, however, a lot of the failings in these films were beyond his ability to fix.)
The first movie (chronologically) is They Got Me Covered, a World War II movie with Hope as a bumbling war correspondent and Dorothy Lamour as his love interest. He is given a lead on a complex sabotage plot, but his informant is soon killed and the only copy of the notes are in an untranslatable shorthand. This film and the second in the set - The Princess and the Pirate - have Hope at his peak. This second picture has Hope as a 17th century version of a vaudevillian who rescues an incognito princess from a vicious pirate. Unfortunately, he also has the pirate's treasure map, which makes him a very wanted individual.
While the first two movies are on practically the same level as Hope's best movies, a slight decline is seen in the next one, Alias Jesse James, in which he plays an insurance salesman who has sold a policy to the famous outlaw. Now, he has to make sure James stays alive. There's a lot of good humor in this one, but sometimes Hope seems to be doing a Lou Costello imitation, and the attempt to capture the glory of his earlier comic westerns (such as The Paleface) is only partially successful.
The Facts of Life is the movie where the films really start to go downhill. Though still passable, this comedy-drama has Hope and Lucille Ball trying to cheat on their respective spouses and finding an affair is not as easy as it seems. I would imagine at the time that this was a disappointment to many Hope (and Ball) fans who would have expected something a bit more comic and less serious.
Road to Hong Kong is an improvement, thanks to the easy chemistry of Hope and Crosby, but the third member of the Road pictures, Lamour, is relegated to a cameo appearance, and female lead Joan Collins is no Lamour. Nonetheless, the formula is tried and true and works.
The last two movies in the set are easily the worst. In I'll Take Sweden, Hope plays a widowed father of Tuesday Weld. Hope is the ultimate square, and though the film seems to mock teenagers, it actually just makes Hope look dumb. Frankie Avalon is Weld's love interest, but Hope doesn't like him, so he moves off to Switzerland, where she falls for someone even worse. The final film, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number, is little more than a sitcom episode, with Hope accidentally getting entangled with a movie star. It's one of those stories that could be resolved quickly and cleanly if Hope just speaks the truth immediately, but he doesn't and the forced wackiness ensues.
The last movies are riddled with bad dialogue, contrived plots and cheap-looking sets, all of which were things beyond Hope's control. I do feel, however, that by the time of these films, Hope had been typecast into a role as himself, just spouting off one-liners and seeming like a stand-up comic more than an actor; in fact, in I'll Take Sweden, his character's name (Bob Holcomb) is practically his own.
The set offers little in the way of extras beyond trailers. In the Amazon rating system, the first two movies rate a high four stars, Road to Hong Kong a low four, Alias Jesse James a high three, The Facts of Life a low three, and the last pair barely two stars. Overall, I am giving the set three stars; while it's got some good films, it also is a poor showcase for exactly how good Hope could be.
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