Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

George Marshall

Writers:

George Beck (story)
George Kennett (writer)

Release Date:

8 June 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The picture that gets you where you laugh!

Plot:

The Divine D.D., a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides...

Plot Keywords:

Hollywood | Actress | Hotel | Real Estate Agent | Bubble Bath

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Bob Hope	...	Thomas J. 'Tom' Meade
Elke Sommer	...	Didi
Phyllis Diller	...	Lily
Cesare Danova	...	Pepe Pepponi
Marjorie Lord	...	Mrs. Martha Meade
Kelly Thordsen	...	Det. Schwartz
Benny Baker	...	Det. Regan
Terry Burnham	...	Doris Meade
Joyce Jameson	...	Telephone operator
Harry von Zell	...	Newscaster / Off-Screen Narrator
Kevin Burchett	...	Larry Meade
Keith Taylor	...	Plympton
John Todd Roberts	...	Newsboy

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (original rating) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company:

Edward Small Productions

Trivia:

One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

Quotes:

Didi: You know that I am of royal blood. Everybody knows that Didi comes from a noble line.
Pepe Pepponi: You come from a noble line all right... a noble line a sailor gave your foolish mother.

Movie Connections:

References Tom Jones (1963)

Phyllis Diller got the wrong Egg Beater!

This movie is a campfest. Elke Sommer plays a temperamental star who ends up on the run from her studio. She inadvertently gets hooked up with married man Bobe Hope who tries to conceal her from the police and his wife Marjorie Lord. Phyllis Diller steals the show as Bobe Hope's maid. Very subtle risqué humor permeates this movie. If you listen very carefully you can hear some very suggestive dialogue between Bobe Hope and Phyllis. While Phyllis is eavesdropping on Bobe & Elke's phone call she is shown peeling a banana. When she hears a vaguely sexual remark she squeezes the bottom and the banana pops out of it's skin and onto the floor! Very subtle but VERY suggestive which is what I loved about the 60's, nothing is as blatant as today. Light fluff of a movie but lots of fun. I guess some previous viewers are so bombarded with in your face grossness these days in most movies they didn't see or appreciate the innocence of this flick.