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Cancel My Reservation

  • 1972
  • G
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
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Cancel My Reservation (1972)
ComedyMystery

Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series... Read allBob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.

  • Director
    • Paul Bogart
  • Writers
    • Bob Fisher
    • Louis L'Amour
    • Arthur Marx
  • Stars
    • Bob Hope
    • Eva Marie Saint
    • Ralph Bellamy
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    554
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Paul Bogart
    • Writers
      • Bob Fisher
      • Louis L'Amour
      • Arthur Marx
    • Stars
      • Bob Hope
      • Eva Marie Saint
      • Ralph Bellamy
    • 21User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
    Bob Hope and Betty Ann Carr in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
    Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and Chief Dan George in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
    Anne Archer, Bob Hope, and Eva Marie Saint in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
    Anne Archer, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and Keenan Wynn in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
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    Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
    Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint in Cancel My Reservation (1972)
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    Bob Hope
    Bob Hope
    • Dan Bartlett
    Eva Marie Saint
    Eva Marie Saint
    • Sheila Bartlett
    Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Bellamy
    • John Ed
    Forrest Tucker
    Forrest Tucker
    • Reese
    Anne Archer
    Anne Archer
    • Crazy Hollister
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Sheriff 'Houndtooth' Riley
    Henry Darrow
    Henry Darrow
    • Joe Little Cloud
    Chief Dan George
    Chief Dan George
    • Old Bear
    Doodles Weaver
    Doodles Weaver
    • Cactus, Deputy Sheriff
    Betty Ann Carr
    Betty Ann Carr
    • Mary Little Cloud
    Herb Vigran
    Herb Vigran
    • Roscoe Snagby
    Pat Morita
    Pat Morita
    • Yamamoto
    Gordon Oliver
    Gordon Oliver
    • Mr. Willie Sparker
    Isabella Hoopes
    • Elderly Lady
    Buster Shaver
    • Doc Morton
    • (as Buster Shavers)
    Tracy Bogart
    • Teenage Girl
    Trudy Bordoff
    • Teenage Girl
    Richard Yniguez
    Richard Yniguez
    • Motorcyclist
    • Director
      • Paul Bogart
    • Writers
      • Bob Fisher
      • Louis L'Amour
      • Arthur Marx
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    • Trivia
      Last theatrical release that Bob Hope ever starred in.
    • Goofs
      At 54.20 Eva Marie Saint is talking on the phone and carries it out of the bedroom. But when she enters and crosses the living room there's no cord.
    • Quotes

      [Riding on the back of a motorcycle.]

      Dan Bartlett: We can pick up my stomach on the way back!

    • Soundtracks
      Cancel My Reservation
      Music by Dominic Frontiere

      Lyrics by Bobby Hart

    User reviews21

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    3/10
    Cancel My Studio Contract
    After Cancel My Reservation Bob Hope made no more films for the big screen. It's as if his career ran out of gas in the seventies. Of course with the reception this film got, it was no surprise he stuck to television and military base tours.

    When I looked at Cancel My Reservation again for the purposes of writing this review I was dumbfounded to learn that it had been based on a Louis L'Amour western novel, The Broken Gun. Now nobody had ever accused Louis L'Amour of writing comedy, so I'd love to know how one of his gritty western tales became the basis for a Bob Hope film?

    Hope plays a TV talk show host who's advised by his doctor to take a needed vacation away from his wife Eva Marie Saint. Seems as though she came on the show as a co-host, kind of like the way Joy Philbin occasionally fills in for Kelly Ripa with Regis and it's grating on his hammy nerves.

    Wouldn't you know it but Rapid Robert gets himself involved with not one, not two, but three murders while in Arizona. Bodies just keep popping up around him. Eva Marie comes west to help him solve this, but Nick and Nora Charles, they're not. The only one who believes him is Anne Archer, the stepdaughter of wealthy rancher Ralph Bellamy.

    Cancel My Reservation marks the final appearance of Bing Crosby in an unbilled cameo in a Bob Hope film. That was a regular occurrence in the forties and fifties. The sequence is an imaginary one after sheriff Keenan Wynn tells him he could be the subject of mob violence. Hope imagines he's being lynched and he looks over at the crowd and appeals to such folks as Bing, Johnny Carson, John Wayne, and Flip Wilson for help in saving an innocent man. Bing says he furnished the rope for the lynching. Wilson says the devil made him do it. Carson says he hopes to inherit Hope's show and John Wayne says he'd like to help, but it isn't his picture.

    By the way with that unbilled cameo, the Duke appears in his career in two films based on Louis L'Amour novels, his classic Hondo and this one.

    Most of Hope's films in the sixties and now the seventies are just pale in comparison to the comedy classics of his earlier period. This one may be one of the worst. The gags just fall flat, the biggest laugh is when he tells the sheriff his age is 42 when he's a quite believable 69. John Wayne was finally playing characters his own age, why couldn't Hope?

    So if you want to see a good film based on a Louis L'Amour novel, I recommend Hondo.
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    • Nov 29, 2007

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    • Release date
      • September 21, 1972 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Broken Gun
    • Filming locations
      • Southwestern Studios, Carefree, Arizona, USA(studio - jail scenes)
    • Production company
      • Naho Productions
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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