Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Bob Hope | ... | Bob Holcomb | |
Tuesday Weld | ... | JoJo Holcomb | |
Frankie Avalon | ... | Kenny Klinger | |
Dina Merrill | ... | Karin Granstedt | |
Jeremy Slate | ... | Erik Carlson | |
Rosemarie Frankland | ... | Marti | |
Walter Sande | ... | Bjork | |
John Qualen | ... | Olaf | |
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Peter Bourne | ... | Ingemar |
Fay DeWitt | ... | Hilda (as Fay deWitt) | |
Alice Frost | ... | Greta | |
Roy Roberts | ... | Ship's Captain | |
Maudie Prickett | ... | Spinster | |
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Beverly Powers | ... | Electra (as Beverly Hills) |
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Siv Marta Aberg | ... | Inger |
Single father Bob Holcomb, dissatisfied with his daughter JoJo's choice of partner, seizes an unexpected opportunity to bring her on a trip to Sweden in order for her to forget all thoughts on marriage. Confronted with liberal Swedish morals, he finds out that marriage might not be too bad an idea after all. Written by Anders Andersson <andersa@DoCS.UU.SE>
In an effort to keep daughter Tuesday Weld away from bad boy Frankie Avalon, Bob Hope takes a job in Sweden. This is just another of the egregiously unfunny movies Hope was making in the 1960s. The film has one distinguishing feature: it manages to cast Weld and make her completely unappealing! Surprisingly cast to begin with, Weld has little to do but roll her eyes or wince at Hope's unfunny wisecracks. Perhaps Annette Funicello or Deborah Walley would have been a better choice for Weld's role. She's far too intelligent to have us believe she'd be smitten with the empty headed Avalon. The presence of classy Dina Merrill, as Hope's love interest, is a plus even if her Swedish accent is a bit half-hearted. Directed, in the style of the average 60s sitcom, by the undistinguished Fred DeCordova.