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Never Say Die

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?

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Release : 1939
Rating : 6.8
Studio : Paramount, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Art Direction, 
Cast : Martha Raye Bob Hope Andy Devine Alan Mowbray Gale Sondergaard
Genre : Comedy

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Reviews

Alicia
2021/05/13

I love this movie so much

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Phonearl
2018/08/30

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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SpunkySelfTwitter
2018/08/30

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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Bluebell Alcock
2018/08/30

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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tavm
2013/06/04

Just watched this early Bob Hope picture made before his established movie personality of a cowardly hero was ingrained in the minds of the public. Here, he's a rich man who believes he's dying due to...well, just watch the picture. Anyway, Martha Raye is also in this. Both of them are engaged to a someone neither wants to marry so they decide to wed each other. Oh, and Andy Devine is also here as someone who really likes Ms. Raye. Let me just stop here and just say that I found the whole thing quite funny and the fact Preston Sturges was one of the writers may have had to do something with it. There's also a game supporting cast involved. So on that note, I highly recommend Never Say Die.

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MartinHafer
2010/12/29

NEVER SAY DIE—8 One of Hope's Best. The plot of this Bob Hope comedy is very familiar, but I cannot hold this against the film. In the 1950s and 60s, many TV shows ripped off the plot—including "The Honeymooners" and "The Flintstones"! So, while it might seemed clichéd, I think it's one of the first films to use this plot, so its familiarity cannot be held against it.The film begins with a very cute scene involving a health spa in Switzerland and their water with magical properties. You just have to see it to appreciate it. As for Hope, he plays a millionaire hypochondriac who insists he's ill when he's actually in fine condition. However, though a silly mistake, doctors now assume he's going to soon die.In the meantime, Hope is pursued by a rather scary woman with a history of husbands who die under mysterious circumstances. She insists they marry and Hope is too cowardly to say no. But, on the day of their wedding he meets another woman (Martha Raye) who is also being forced into a marriage she doesn't want and Hope proposes that they marry each other. After all, it will save both of them and he's expected to be dead within a month—so it's a no-lose proposition. Shortly after their wedding, Raye's true love (Andy Devine) arrives to wait for Hope's demise. Soon, the black widow and Raye's fiancé arrive as well and so the countdown begins.What sets this apart from most Hope films is the writing—it's just better than usual and the film abounds with laughs. Plus, surprisingly, the chemistry between Raye and Hope was nice—and a bit romantic. It's a swell film that you can't help but enjoy.

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Petri Pelkonen
1999/11/30

Never Say Die is a funny old comedy, made in 1939.The movie takes place in Switzerland.In the movie the great Bob Hope plays this guy called John Kidley, who thinks he's dying, so he decides to get married before he's gone.And he marries a woman, whom he saves from a suicide.This woman is called Mickey Hawkins, played by Martha Raye.John and Mickey are supposed to marry some others, but they marry each other, without any love.They hardly know each other.But they've got nothing to lose.And then there is this Henry Munch(Andy Devine), who is very much in love with Mickey.But everything works out just fine.Mickey and John start to love each other, Henry finds his own sweetheart and John's not even dying.The movie has a great ending.Great movie from the 1930's.

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Varlaam
1998/12/19

This supposedly light-hearted romp through Switzerland seems more like spending the weekend at Berchtesgaden with Adolf and Eva.This is quite a surprise when you consider that the script was co-authored by Preston Sturges, and that the cast includes Bob Hope and Andy Devine. I only have to imagine Andy saying "Wild Bill" in that puberty-stricken voice of his, and I laugh. Unfortunately, this is not the old Wild Bill Hickok show.The next Preston Sturges project to misfire as badly as this one would probably be The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend in 1949, with all of those masterpieces still to come lying in between.The film has one interesting sequence, the duel scene, which contains this dialogue: "There's a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet and a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank." When you hear this in the movie, said with the proper rhythm, you will recognize it immediately as the "chalice from the palace has the brew that is true" bit in "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye from 1956. I suppose Melvin Frank and Norman Panama knew a good idea when they heard one and helped themselves. Or do both scenes derive from an even older vaudeville routine?

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