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The legendary Bob Hope takes to the high seas in this hilarious Oscar®-nominated* romantic comedy co-starring Virginia Mayo Walter Slezak Walter Brennan and Victor McLaglen!Sylvester the Great (Hope) is a 17th-century entertainer with an act so atrocious he's exiled from England. Aboard a ship bound for America he finds himself falling for the beautiful Princess Margaret (Mayo) a woman uninterested in love not to mention his lousy one-liners. But when an evil band of pirates attacks the ship and captures the princess her only hope is the cowardly comedian. Can Sylvester stop cracking jokes and muster the courage to rescue his
The legendary Bob Hope takes to the high seas in this hilarious Oscar®-nominated* romantic comedy co-starring Virginia Mayo Walter Slezak Walter Brennan and Victor McLaglen!Sylvester the Great (Hope) is a 17th-century entertainer with an act so atrocious he's exiled from England. Aboard a ship bound for America he finds himself falling for the beautiful Princess Margaret (Mayo) a woman uninterested in love not to mention his lousy one-liners. But when an evil band of pirates attacks the ship and captures the princess her only hope is the cowardly comedian. Can Sylvester stop cracking jokes and muster the courage to rescue his royal love? In other words will he and Margaret end up walking down the aisle or walking the plank?System Requirements: Runnning Time 94 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 027616923493 Manufacturer No: 1008318
Bob Hope is in top form in this Technicolor parody of pirate pictures, doing his best vaudeville shtick as an inept performer trying to save princess Virginia Mayo from the evil clutches of governor Walter Slezak and pirate Victor McLaglen. It's all ridiculous fun, of course, but if you're a fan of Hope, you never tire of his self-effacing gags and double-entendres. His out-of-place show biz jabs were always clever, and they're all the funnier in this period setting--particularly the Bing Crosby jokes. But Walter Brennan nearly steals the film as a wacky pirate scheming to steal buried treasure, and tattooing the map on Hope's chest. Yet the two best routines are when Hope tries to conceal his chest while taking a bath with Slezak, and when he tries to impersonate McLaglen as "the Hook." --Bill Desowitz
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 17 May 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0027616923493 UPC: 027616923493
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