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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Simply Perfect

Beautiful, moving film.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

*Spoiler/plot- Paleface, 1948. In the Western USA Territories, Calamity Jane goes under cover with a traveling dentist to find badmen selling dangerous contraband guns & liquor to the Indians that leads them on the warpath against wagon train settlers.*Special Stars- Bob Hope, Jane Russell.*Theme- Hope and Russell have great screen chemistry.*Trivia/location/goofs- Comedy film. Some outdoor parts filmed in Chatsworth CA "Iverson Movie Ranch". Paramount Pictures made film.*Emotion- A fun & light film romp with two funny comedians post WW2.*Based On- US western pioneer lore.

Ghostbreakers sorrowful jones and cat and the canary. they were far more funnier than this one. bob hope is good though and i love his one liners and the expressions on his face. the one i cant stand is jane russell her reactions are always like a waxed statue dull lifeless and predictable. she was not very pretty in the outlaw but her attributes did the trick but as far as being a good actress come again. the plot is messy and i loved the theme song. it is watchable but i prefer HOPE with goddard...lamarr..lamour. love the fact that the old paramount crew were still on board....farciot...wally westmore jennings. they did such a good job in SO PROUDLY WE HAIL

No matter if I've now seen this Western comedy umpteen times boy and man it still makes me laugh. There isn't much subtlety and there's plenty of farce but it's still an entertaining story with many sparkling quips to be had from Bob Hope in classic form.Jane Russell as Calamity Jane is sprung from jail by government undercover men, in the hope she will help them track down some white baddies running arms to the Injuns, and in return for a full pardon. On the way she enrols the unwitting Hope playing a not-so-painless dentist. One memorable scene follows another, not a minute is wasted in the ninety – even the slapstick sections (such as Hope stopping to growl a bit too much) are brief. And the cute song Buttons And Bows won the Oscar so maybe should be sat through respectfully. Favourite bits: Nestor Paiva laughing at the pain he was in after the wrong tooth was extracted by a laughing Hope with both under the influence of laughing gas; Hope apparently giving the marriage JP a kiss; the trouble had taking the reins; Hope not fooling with Joe's gal – and the offhand reprimand he later gave Joe's corpse; the lean to the right sequence (Danny Kaye's later take on it in The Court Jester was better though); the happy film having a happy ending; so many others. The production values were high, the Technicolor warm, the direction tight, and thankfully the humour was decidedly middlebrow.One of my favourite Bob Hope films it was meant for ordinary people to enjoy thoughtlessly, a concept that is always derided by clever people. Thanks to its immense antiquity this maybe had an abundance of stereotypes of all types but it had a good heart and humour, something missing in the later Western comedy Blazing Saddles. I wonder idly how many untrained moviegoers in 1948 would've laughed if Hope and the other cowboy characters in here had sat around at length swearing and bursting their fluffboxes?

There are so many wonderful moments in this gloriously silly movie, that it would be impossible to mention more than a few. Hope's timing, the verbal and sight gags combined, a fairly bawdy undercurrent,involving Painless Potter's unsuccessful attempts to bed his new bride, and probably the funniest parody of the classic showdown ever filmed, add up to a very entertaining movie.Some of the most priceless moments go by very quickly, and may not be obvious at first. Painless Potter is smilingly massaging the bald head of a tough dental patient, and they both begin chuckling uncontrollably, due to a leak in the laughing gas machine. Painless Potter is shaving outdoors, with a small mirror hung from a tree branch. An arrow whizzes by, and he remarks that he must be shaving too close. A very obvious man ,trying to conceal himself behind a bush, comes closer, and Potter remarks with a sort of deadpan whimsy, " Must be a Virginia Creeper." When another arrow nearly hits him, he examines it curiously, and muses aloud on who it is that shoots arrows. He lists the possibilities, including Cupid and William Tell, before shrieking " Indians!" and running for the blockhouse. When he tries to get wife Jane to let him in, he hollers, " Help, help, there's a million Indians out here against one coward!"Viewers who can let themselves get immersed in the wisecracks and sight gags, along with just about every western cliché you can think of, will have a good laugh with this delightful film.And, the scene where Painless Potter serenades his sleepy wife with a concertina, singing " Buttons and Bows", as their covered wagon moves slowly along the trail, is absolutely charming. There's something very tender about the way the naive husband sings the funny little song to his drowsy bride.