It's about 10 minutes and what might have been funny in a surreal road picture lays a Vermont volleyball of an egg in Call Me Bwana. There's a whole sequence when in the jungle Hope finds a golf course with Arnold Palmer playing on it. If the latter was the case it's a good thing Ernie checked out when he did. Hiring Edie, I'm sure was either an act of charity or it's possible that Lionel Jeffries's part was originally meant for her late husband Ernie Kovacs. Helping Hope in his quest is CIA agent Edie Adams who I'm sure was personally hired at the agency by Allen Dulles. I do realize this is a comedy, but are we to believe that the Central Intelligence Agency didn't do some background check on Hope and found his credentials weren't all that good? Lord, they were non-existent. The Russians in turn are sending Gina Lollabrigida in a ridiculous blond wig to help their man in Africa, Lionel Jeffries. In Call Me Bwana, the Kennedy administration wants to have the CIA hire Bob Hope to lead an expedition to recover a lost satellite before the Russians get it. But all Rock was asked to do was enter and win a fishing tournament. This in fact was the same plot device that was used in the very funny Man's Favorite Sport where Rock Hudson was a fishing expert. The plot such as it is has Hope as a Robert Ruark type author who has used his uncle's African diary as material for some successful books. Call Me Bwana other than establishing background shots got no closer to Africa than London where the film was made. What was good for the Road to Zanizibar wasn't going to cut it any more with a Sixties audience. Not after King Solomon's Mines and The African Queen right up to Howard Hawks's acclaimed Hatari. 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).
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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. Lots of one-liners by Bob Hope, in this film produced by Albert Broccoli, who did all the early James Bond movies.
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