Someone forgot to tell old ski nose that non-authentic African locations just weren't going to cut it any more. All others, just watch his earlier films.your brain will thank you for it. There are a few parts that are even ALMOST funny.and Hope fans might enjoy it. Can Matt find the probe.and can he prevent these two from getting to it first? This one has 'time-passer' written all over it. And, since Matt is an idiot, he invites these two to accompany him. At the same time, the Soviets have sent out a sexy spy (Anita Ekberg) and her assistant (Lionel Jeffries). However, Matt is full of hot air and has made up his tales of adventure and is a complete phony. Somehow, it ended up landing in the middle of no where in Africa and the US government go to Matt (Hope) to ask this famous adventurer to retrieve it. But, on the other, it did have nice production values and the story wasn't horrible! The story begins with a moon probe going off course on its return to Earth. In many ways, the film was exactly what I wasn't funny. O'Farrell" simply were NOT funny and it seemed as if Hope was simply going through the motions.so I had extremely low expectations for "Call Me Bwana". "Call Me Bwana" is not a terrible film.and considering the sort of terrible movies Bob Hope was making in the 1960s and early 70s, this is saying a lot! Movies like "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number", "How to Commit Marriage" and "The Private Navy of Sgt. Not as bad as some others have 's a lightweight Bob Hope comedy, after all. lots of spies, intrigue, and exotic "foreign" locations, just like a James Bond flick. I can see why Broccoli wanted to do this project. NO SONGS! and a five minute bit with a 30-something Arnold Palmer. This film is very similar to Hope's "Road" movies with Bing, but moves slower. Viewers will recognize Jeffries, who played the grandfather in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Co-stars Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, and Lionel Jeffries round out the cast. must be the first to find it, so they hire African expert Matthew Merriwether (Bob Hope). The basic premise is that one of our space ships has gone astray, and landed in Africa. The credits don't list who does the voices for John Kennedy or Kruschev at the opening, but clearly its a reflection of the politics of the day. ![]() Acc to IMDb, this was the second film produced by Eon productions. It would turn you off movies forever.Lots of one-liners by Bob Hope, in this film produced by Albert Broccoli, who did all the early James Bond movies. Gordon Douglas directed Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Saps at Sea (1940), the classic sci-fi film Them! (1954), James Coburn in In Like Flint (1967), Frank Sinatra in Young at Heart (1954) and The Detective (1968), and Elvis Presley in Follow That Dream (1962), making him the only film-maker to have directed both Sinatra and Presley. Douglas recalled: ‘I have a large family to feed and it’s only occasionally that I find a story that interests me. Don’t try to watch all the films I’ve directed. It is shot in Technicolor by Ted Moore, scored by Monty Norman and Muir Matheson, and designed by Syd Cain. It is only the second non-Bond movie produced by Eon until Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017).Īlso in the cast are Percy Herbert, Paul Carpenter, Orlando Martins, Al Murock, Bert Johnson, Peter Dyneley, Robert Nichols and Robert Arden. It is made by Eon Productions by the James Bond producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli in the same year as their Dr No. There they find a couple of unlikely foreign spies – Russian secret agent Luba (Anita Ekberg) and Dr Ezra Mungo (Lionel Jeffries, replacing Terry-Thomas).Īs you can see all the jokes coming a mile off in the screenplay by Nate Monaster, Johanna Harwood, Mort Lachman and Bill Larkin, there are only some smiles but very few real laughs among the daft goings-on. ![]() Hope stars as phoney explorer and African authority Matt Meriwether, who takes off with special agent Frederica Larsen (Edie Adams) to retrieve a space module in the Pinewood studio jungle. Call Me Bwana ** (1963, Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 6550īob Hope is pleasantly enough showcased in director Gordon Douglas’s 1962 British-made farcical comedy, which turns out to be adequate though rather low-fun entertainment.
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