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THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Bob Hope and Jane Russell See in 'Son Paleface,' New Paramount Movie
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The surprisingly successful double-harnessing of Jane Russell with Bob Hope in that farcical Western called. "The Paleface" some three or four years ago has resulted in just what you'd imagine - "The Son of Paleface," in which the same two stars are again put to slicing up each other with cutting looks and knife-edged gags on the Paramount's screen. Only this time—with Roy Rogers and his faithful horse, Trigger, dragging along—they are doing it much more adroitly and with humor that is as broad as it is long, so that what is delivered in this colored package is a wild farce that comes so close to the style of those old "Road to—" pictures of Mr. Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour that you might almost shut your eyes (if you can manage) and think you are enjoying one of same.As a matter of fact, Frank Tashlin, who directed and collaborated on the script with Joseph Quillan, Robert Welch, the producer, and anybody on the set with a bright idea, has got from Mr. Hope a performance of such comically harried savoir-faire - such blissfully bumptious asininity —that it matches those he used to give on the "Roads." This, with a script full of nonsense, a lot of Miss Russell in rare good form and some amusing byplay from Mr. Rogers (and from Trigger) adds up to a funny film.As was always the case with those "Road" shows, the important thing here is not the yarn but the farcical inspirations that pop up as it goes along. And these arrive in abundance as. Mr. Hope, a brightly blazered Harvard man, son of the old Indian fighter, Paleface, returns to Sawbuck Pass to retrieve the fortune he thinks his father stashed away for him. Complications naturally develop when a lady bandit, known as "The Torch," who is a saloon singer on the surface—and what a surface, she being Miss Russell!—makes a play for him. By a stroke of luck and Sheriff Rogers, matters are remotely brought to rights.It is such things, however as "Junior" (which is what they call Paleface's son) eluding a necktie party when the townsfolk discover he is broke or going loco from thirst and heat on the desert and seeing buzzards (he thinks they're Martin and Lewis) that are the fun—these and the running line of chatter that Mr. Hope endlessly unreels.As additional 'entertainment, there is music—a generous set of new songs, topped off by a lively sort of hoe-down, "Wing Ding Tonight," which is sung by Miss Russell and the dance-hall dollies, and a couple of clever travesties, "California Rose" and "There's a Cloud in My Valley of Sunshine," that Mr. Rogers pulls out of his ol' geetar. The three stars also get together on a big new handling of "Buttons and Bows," the fabulous-hit that was given is fast brush in "The Paleface," much to the producers' (Paramount's) chagrin.Best gag is the climactic snapper, which we won't be so mean as to reveal. But we'd say that Mr. Hope's comment on it—"Let's see 'em beat this on television!"—tags the whole show.On the stage at the Paramount are the Five DeMarco Sisters, Los Gatos and Louis Prima and his band.
SON OF PALEFACE, written by Frank Tashlin, Robert L. Welch and Joseph Quillan; directed by Mr. Tashlin; produced, by Mr. Welch, for Paramount Pictures. At the Paramount.Junior . . . . . Bob HopeMike . . . . . Jane RussellRoy Rogers . . . . . Roy RogersKirk . . . . . Bill WilliamsDoc Lovejoy . . . . . Lloyd CorriganEbeneezer Hawkins . . . . . Paul E. BurnsSheriff McIntyre . . . . . Douglas DumbrillePre. Stoner . . . . . Harry Von ZellIndian Chief . . . . . Iron Eyes CodyBlacksmith . . . . . Wee Willie DavisCharley . . . . . Charley Cooley
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