Louisiana Purchase details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Bob Hope, Maxie Rosenbloom, Vera Zorina |
| Director: | Irving Cummings |
| Genres: | Comedy, Music/Musical |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Louisiana Purchase |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 34 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 27 Jul 2009 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Not in the best of films here, Bob Hope is still worth watching as usual.
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 05 Feb 2013[Highly rated reviewer]
I am a big fan of Bob Hope's films---they always entertain and are sheer good fun. This one is a long way from his best ( such as the 5 star 'Cat And The Canary')----the plot here is a bit weak and the jokes are not quite as sharp as usual----but it's still Bob Hope and it's still good old-fashioned fun and laughter. An old stalwart of the Silent Era , Victor Moore, almost steals the whole show as the prim and proper investigative Senator who is compromised hilariously. A rarely-seen Bob Hope movie that is worth watching and a must for Hope fans.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(3)Not in the best of films here, Bob Hope is still worth watching as usual.
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 05 Feb 2013I am a big fan of Bob Hope's films---they always entertain and are sheer good fun. This one is a long way from his best ( such as the 5 star 'Cat And The Canary')----the plot here is a bit weak and the jokes are not quite as sharp as usual----but it's still Bob Hope and it's still good old-fashioned fun and laughter. An old stalwart of the Silent Era , Victor Moore, almost steals the whole show as the prim and proper investigative Senator who is compromised hilariously. A rarely-seen Bob Hope movie that is worth watching and a must for Hope fans.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Bob Hope vehicle is colourful extravaganza
By a customer from Sussex , 11 Jun 2010Having of course, nothing to do with the historical purchase of Louisiana from the French, this was a successful Broadway show snapped up by Paramount for filming in 1941, importing three of the Broadway stars (Victor Moore, Vera Zorina, and Irene Bordoni) but dropping most of Irving Berlin's songs. The result is a rather lurid Technicolor extravaganza with spectacularly vulgar costumes (Raoul Pene du Bois) and only intermittently amusing comedy. For an English audience there are rather too many references to the American political system, and too much of Victor Moore as the investigating senator Loganberry, whom Bob Hope is busily trying to compromise in order to save his own skin from corruption charges. Vera Zorina looks pretty and dances, but could have used some better choreography (from her husband perhaps - she was one of the many ballerinas Balanchine married).
For the ladies there is a fashion show, and no expense is spared with a recreation Mardi Gras parade, but the net result is something less than a smash hit.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 16 Nov 2009This is a very good looking print of a rather unusual Bob Hope vehicle, a comedy about political corruption given an unexpectedly topical twist, given what Obama is going through with health care, by some rather loaded and satirical comments on Roosevelt's New Deal. There are rather too many set pieces which interfere with the pace of the plot,
such as a balletic dance at a Mardis Gras and a vaudeville-ish routine from Hope about girdles, although in compensation Victor Moore is excellent and there is a very funny seduction scene. The real stars, though, are the cinematographers and the art director: the whole film looks sumptuous in the gaudiest of, I presume, Technicolour.- Was this review helpful to you?
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