Biography: Norman Z. McLeod |
McLeod became an animator and writer for the comedy shorts of producer Al Christie by the late teens. A combat pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War One, he was brought in to assistant direct on William A. Wellman's Wings in 1927.... more
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Cast: Gene Autry Bob Hope Bing Crosby Gary Cooper Roy Rogers Rhonda Fleming
Tags: Comedy Western Comedy
Length: 92min
Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a 100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey),...
Tags: Slapstick Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 79min
Red Skelton's final film starring vehicle is an expansion of an hour-long TV play, which also starred Skelton when it was originally seen in September of 1955 on the weekly anthology Climax!. Skelton plays doltish lunchroom attendant Rusty Morgan, who...
Cast: Joan Fontaine
Length: 85min
Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble...
Cast: Hedy Lamarr
Tags: Spy Comedy Comedy Action Comedy of Errors Spy Film
Length: 93min
Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is approached by federal agents who think that he's international spy Eric Augustine, to whom Peanuts bears a striking resemblance....
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Tags: War Comedy War Drama Farce
Length: 87min
Self-centered Washington socialite Rosalind Russell joins the WACS in order to be near her boyfriend William Ching, a GI stationed in Paris. Russell is certain that her DC connections will enable her to get out of the service as easily as she got in....
Tags: Comedy Western Comedy
Length: 91min
Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless Potter, a hopelessly inept dentist who heads west to seek his fortune. Meanwhile, buxom female outlaw Calamity Jane (Jane Russell)...
Cast: Fred Astaire Betty Hutton
Tags: Musical Romance Musical Romance
Length: 120min
Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays a more sedate role than usual as war widow Kitty McNeil. Not wishing to have her young son Richard (Gregory Moffatt) grow up in the stiff and stuffy...
Cast: Dorothy Lamour
Tags: Adventure Comedy Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 100min
Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the law again, musicians Bob and Bing stow away on an ocean liner. They try to come to the rescue of heiress Dorothy Lamour, who is...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Cast: Boris Karloff Danny Kaye Robert Altman
Tags: Comedy Musical Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 110min
James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but the Technicolor musical comedy proved to be a cash cow at the box office. Danny Kaye stars as Walter, a milquetoast...
Tags: Musical Romance Musical
Length: 87min
One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse "No." There's actually more to the film than that, but not much. Set in Indiana in the 1890s, the story revolves around an diehard Confederate soldier...
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