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The Paleface
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Overview

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Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Writers:
Edmund L. Hartmann (original screenplay) and
Frank Tashlin (original screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 December 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Western more
Tagline:
She can shoot a gun almost as fast as BOB can run ! more
Plot:
Calamity Jane is despatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence school dentist as part of her cover. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Legendary Entertainer Bob Hope Dies at 100
 (From IMDb News. 28 July 2003)

Legendary Entertainer Bob Hope Dies at 100
 (From WENN. 28 July 2003)

User Comments:
Bob Hope and Jane Russel in a great western comedy more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bob Hope ... 'Painless' Peter Potter

Jane Russell ... Calamity Jane
Robert Armstrong ... Terris
Iris Adrian ... Pepper
Bobby Watson ... Toby Preston (as Robert Watson)
Jackie Searl ... Jasper Martin (as Jack Searl)
Joseph Vitale ... Indian Scout
Charles Trowbridge ... Gov. Johnson
Clem Bevans ... Hank Billings
Jeff York ... Big Joe
Stanley Andrews ... Commissioner Emerson
Wade Crosby ... Jeb
Chief Yowlachie ... Chief Yellow Feather
Iron Eyes Cody ... Chief Iron Eyes
John Maxwell ... Village gossip
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:U | Canada:G (Ontario)

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Trivia:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Quotes:
Potter: [draws his guns] I hope they're loaded. I wish I was, too. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Frasier: Look Before You Leap (#3.16)" (1996) more
Soundtrack:
Buttons and Bows more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Bob Hope and Jane Russel in a great western comedy, 9 May 2002
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Author: tmwest from S. Paulo, Brazil

This is quite a funny western, it is so much fun you don't want it to end. Frank Tashlin who later became a director of great comedies shared the credits for the screenplay. As a matter of fact he directed the excellent sequence of this film, "Son of Paleface". Bob Hope acts like a dumb guy, but sometimes he comes out with something that reminds you he is the famous Bob Hope who is not taking the film seriously and that works very well, making it even funnier. As for Jane Russel as Calamity Jane, the combination of being sexy and apparently a bad girl also works well. The best scene is the showdown when they give so much advice to Hope, that he gets mixed up. The song "Buttons and Bows later became a classic.

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