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Slokes, take a chill pill

posted 16 years ago by stargzr454
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This movie is a comedy, repeat, a comedy. That means check your logic and your coat at the door. Next you'll be dissin' the Three Stooges for having a water seeking submarine that flys. I saw Call Me Bwanna when I was a kid and have been a Hope fan ever since. Edie Adams I was mad about until she cheated on me with Ernie Kovacs, drove me right into Barbara Eden's arms. People also have to remember that there were other, big name Africa movies released around the same time. I bet Steve Correl and Jim Carey saw it too.

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[–] cgculpeper 16 years ago

I agree. It's a funny Hope lark, much better than some of his other 60's comedies like "How To Commit Marriage." "Bwana" was more like the films Bob made in the 40's and the laughs really rocked the theatre in New Jersey when I saw it at a kiddie matinee way back in 1963. I remember when Hope and Anita Ekberg were locked in the space capsule and Ekberg says, "I can't breathe!" Hope replies, "If you can't breathe, baby, we're really in trouble." Politically correct? No. Funny? Yes. And, by the way, "Call Me Bwana" is the perfect title for this type of comedy.

[–] fredgarv79 15 years ago

I just remember the scene where he's treking through the jungle, and suddenly comes onto a golf course with arnold palmer. it's the sort of crazy unexpected stuff that they do in movies all the time now. loved that scene.

[–] cgculpeper 15 years ago

In "Spies Like Us" Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase run into Bob Hope playing golf in the desert.

[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

In "Alias Jesse James" the gunfight at the end has cameos from a number of TV cowboys and one famous Indian sidekick.

It does look like they did their scenes on the sets of their own shows however.

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