1968 - THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL, horrible, bad, awful, offensive, tasteless, you can't stop watching it.

Bob's a wheeler dealer army sergeant at war with the navy as he tries to get a load of beer that was sunk by a Japanese submarine for his men that's floating around the South Pacific. 

This is the third in the Bob Hope/Phyllis Diller anti comedy trilogy that started with Eight on the Lam and includes Boy Did I Get A Wrong Number.  The Private Navy of Sgt O'Farrell is really something to see.  The film has offensive racial stereotypes about Native Americans and the Japanese and lots and lots of unfunny jokes.   Hope was 65 years old and at one point he actually takes off his shirt to play a love scene with Gina Lollobrigida!

This film was written and directed (?) by Frank Tashlin.  But lets wrap up this review with some of the hilarious dialog from the film.

41 year old Gina Lollobrigida

" Sorry, I bit your hand but I was dreaming about Nurse Krause, again."
"Yeah, those reruns are murder."

"Don't shoot. I'm an American like you. I'm Calvin Coolidge Ishimura. "
 "Yeah and I'm Sessue Hayakawa O'Farrell."

Filmed with the cooperation of the United States Department of Defense.  The whole thing had to have been intentional.

92 minutes, screenplay by Frank Tashlin.

1952 - SON OF PALEFACE,western spoof is pretty silly and pretty funny.

Bob Hope is "Junior," the The Son of Paleface .  A Harvard man on his way out to the wild west to collect his late father's fortune.  Jane Russell is the head of an outlaw gang who wants to steal him blind.  Roy Rogers is a government agent attempting to stop Russell. Trigger is Roy's horse.

A very funny Bob Hope western spoof.  Directed by Frank Tashlin in full cartoon mode.  The jokes, visual gags, wisecracks and pretty decent songs never stop coming.  Hope's like a dirty little boy leering at Jane Russel even though he was almost 50 when he made       

 

Who ever had the inspired idea of casting Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger as yet another foil for Hope should have received a bonus.  Rodgers is a pretty good sport since he gets to spend the entire film having his masculinity ridiculed by Hope.  Hope also does comedic battle with Rodger's horse Trigger in some really funny slapstick scenes.  The legendary scene with Hope sharing a bed with Trigger is still very funny.

Watching Bob Hope in his prime makes you appreciate how hilarious he could be.  Woody Allen borrowed a lot of Hope's comedy timing for his version of Hope's wise ass coward character.

By the time Son of Paleface was filmed, Hope had been around for so long that his comedy timing only needed to be on autopilot.  He was clearly a good enough sport to play along with Frank Tashlin's goofy visual gags.  And show me another performer who could get away with breaking the 4th wall in a film.

95 minutes, written by Frank Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch.