Call Me Bwana [VHS]
by Gordon Douglas
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Actor: Anita Ekberg, Arnold Palmer, Bob Hope, Edie Adams, Lionel JeffriesDirector: Gordon Douglas
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 103 minutes
Release Date: 1994-03-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Call Me Bwana [VHS]
Movie Review: Bob Hope in Africa, Working for NASA
Summary: 5 Stars
Like the character Rock Hudson played in Howard Hawks' MAN"S FAVORITE SPORT?, Matthew (Bob Hope) is a liar and a buffoon, a man who takes credit for another man's life work and then gets away with it. We're supposed to think this is funny, particularly when he is menaced and titillated by two spies right out of a James Bond picture. Poor Anita Ekberg, here she had made a wonderful comeback in a towering international success, Fellini's LA DOLCE VITA, and this is the best her agents could come up with for a follow-up?
Edie Adams' memoirs tell the sad tale of the way that, after the death of her husband, Ernie Kovacs, she realized that she was nearly bankrupt and was forced to take any part in any movie, no matter how demeaning, which explains why she is playing second fiddle to Anita Ekberg. Similarly she (Adams) had just come off making Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT, one of the incandescent movie performances, and it's a little dispiriting to find her among the lost beauties of CALL ME BWANA. Not that it's a bad picture, just a little cheap. If you like golf, you'll enjoy seeing Arnold Palmer in an extended turn, playing off Bob Hope's famous fondness for golf and his idolization of golf pros.
Movie Review: Features A Great Spoof Of A "DR. NO" Scene
Summary: 2 Stars
Though the film is typical of Bob's later 60's comedies there is a brilliant shot-for-shot spoof of the "deadly spider" scene from "DR. NO" (The film was produced by Salzman & Brocolli, the creators of the James Bond series)
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