Bob Hope, a novelist whose main subject is the bachelor's life and how it varies from country to country and the named country's lifestyles, is forced to stay in America to pay his debt to the IRS because his accountant ran off with his money and never filed a tax return for him. His agent places in a residential subdivision to show how the Americans live. Enter Paradise Village and Lana Turner.
She leases him her place to live month by month, surrounded by families, whose housewives are home alone with crying babies and who are yearning for change and culture, and here he shows up to help them out of their doldrums. But then with all these fancy ideas he's giving their wives, the husbands think the worst of him and things go from bad to crazy.
Being a Lana Turner fan, I might be more gracious in rating this Hope comedy. It certainly is not his best material, but as other reviewers have said, it has its rewards. Namely Janis Paige, who nicely fills out a dress and the believable charm and chemistry between Lana and Bob.
Lana loved comedy and enjoyed breaking out and making this film. It shows in the later part of the film, as she loosens up.
Its main weakness are one-liners that are more rude than funny and therefore fall flat. But, that's mainly near the beginning of the film. And, get this: this is based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote the classic Laura (the novel, of course.)
Costarring Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Don Porter, Reta Shaw, Agnes Moorehead, and Virginia Grey (in one of her five appearances in a film with Lana), this is fun, easygoing film that should be enjoyed for what it is, a good time with one of America's favorite funny men, Bob Hope.
She leases him her place to live month by month, surrounded by families, whose housewives are home alone with crying babies and who are yearning for change and culture, and here he shows up to help them out of their doldrums. But then with all these fancy ideas he's giving their wives, the husbands think the worst of him and things go from bad to crazy.
Being a Lana Turner fan, I might be more gracious in rating this Hope comedy. It certainly is not his best material, but as other reviewers have said, it has its rewards. Namely Janis Paige, who nicely fills out a dress and the believable charm and chemistry between Lana and Bob.
Lana loved comedy and enjoyed breaking out and making this film. It shows in the later part of the film, as she loosens up.
Its main weakness are one-liners that are more rude than funny and therefore fall flat. But, that's mainly near the beginning of the film. And, get this: this is based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote the classic Laura (the novel, of course.)
Costarring Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Don Porter, Reta Shaw, Agnes Moorehead, and Virginia Grey (in one of her five appearances in a film with Lana), this is fun, easygoing film that should be enjoyed for what it is, a good time with one of America's favorite funny men, Bob Hope.