The Paleface
Director: Norman Z. McLeod, Norman McLeod Cast: Bob Hope , Jane Russell , Iris Adrian , Robert Armstrong , Bobby Watson
DVD
(Dolby 5.1 / Mono)
$14.99
- Release Date: 06/01/2010
- UPC: 0025192121227
- Original Release: 1948
- Rating: NR
- Source: Universal Studios
- Region Code: 1
- Sound: [monaural, Dolby Digital]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 5460
- Sales rank: 36,535
Bonus Materials
Entertaining the Troops
Command Performance 1945
"Buttons & Bows" Sing-Along
Photograph Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
Production Notes
Cast and Filmmakers
Bob Hope as Painless Peter Potter
Jane Russell as Calamity Jane
Robert Armstrong as Terris
Iris Adrian as Pepper
Robert Watson as Toby Preston
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
DVD-ROM Features
DVD Newsletter
Recommendations
Languages
Captioned for the Hearing Impaired: English
Subtitles: Español
Subtitles: Français
Subtitles: None
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"Norman Z. McLeod directs Bob Hope in the western comedy The Paleface, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital
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The great civic historian Otto Friedrich, in his study of Los Angeles in the 1940's, made a stunningly accurate analysis on the films of Bob Hope. All of Hope's movies, he wrote, revolve around the same three basic gags: the size of his nose, his innate cowardliness, and his complete ineptitude with women. With the exception of the ski beak, these truths are self-evident in The Paleface. Featuring an extremely attractive Jane Russell as Calamity Jane, the thin plot revolves around an undercover operation to discover who is selling guns to Indians. Jane agrees to pose as the wife of a government agent in exchange for a pardon, but through a series of mishaps must dupe Hope's eastern dentist into marrying her so she can secretly prop him up as an agent. All that is really besides the point, since the plot allows Hope to essentially play his typical role and provides all sorts of instances where he can be a coward and a frustrated lover. The major plot points are as predictable as they come, but it doesn't really matter. The jokes are for the most part typically funny material, especially the climax in the Indian camp where Hope disguises himself as the medicine man, and Russell has probably not looked better on screen with perhaps one or two exceptions. The script was co-written by Frank Tashlin, who would go on to become a well-known director and, in fact, directed the sequel Son of Paleface when he felt the director Norman Z. McLeod had not handled the original to his liking.