I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I'm surprised this movie received such laudable reviews. Although I've now reached the age when I have a lot of trouble remembering even the title of the movie I saw yesterday, let alone what it was about and who was in it, I remember seeing "Bachelor in Paradise" on first release quite well. I enjoyed it far more than the audience did, but I'm still amazed that Hope was nominated for a Golden Globe and actually won the 1962 Laurel Award. The movie has a slow start. It's not until the sequence in which Lana Turner shows Hope over his prospective house that the wisecracks flow thick and fast. Unfortunately, it's the one highlight in an otherwise somewhat pedestrian Hope vehicle that is over-clogged with Miss Turner whose role has obviously been built up. She is such an uninteresting performer, even Prentiss upstages her. She's only effective as a foil for Hope. Her own scenes, especially the one with Porter, are boring. But Sundberg and McGiver make the best of their thin material.

For those of us who were around in the late fifties and early sixities, this walk down memory lane movie evokes a longing to be living back in those times again.The plot deals with Hope and Turner meeting in a new tract housing development in California. Who can forget these housing developments that sprang up, not only in California but near every major city in the United States.The new fashion was sprawling ranch style houses replete with built-in appliances, wall phones, pecky Cypress paneling and walls of sliding glass doors--to "bring the outdoors in".This "California" style housing became popular around the country in the early sixties and I lived in one. Few today can imagine the excitement that came, back then, moving into one of these wonder homes with double front doors and all the modern conveniences. In the early sixties such time saving high-brow devices, as the garbage disposal and the dishwasher, were years away from becoming the norm for middle class America. Having them raised you up one notch on the social ladder.For those not fortunate to have lived in the early sixties, this movie is a delightful and uncanningly accurate reflection of the times.It's not a great movie, but then again, it's not trying to cure cancer. It is what it is meant to be, a pleasant and enjoyable battle of the sexes comedy. Doris Day could easily have been interchanged with Lana Turner in this middle class farce.Bob hopes delightful quipping is ever present. No one else can deliver snappy asides like Hope. The meaning behind his subtle wise-crack remarks are largely lost on todays younger viewers.As other reviewers have stated, watching this film leaves us who lived in the sixties greatly longing for these days past.Color television was new and exciting, as were modern built in appliances, and spacious rambling ranch homes with California architecture were the dream homes of the middle class.You can just see the family gathering in the living room of one of these homes, around the new color TV, to watch the most recent space launching from Cape Canaveral.And that is exactly what we did.If you lived in the sixties, definitely get a copy of this film. Be prepared for waves of long forgotten memories to come flooding back. Waves of nostalgia will make you wish for those simpler, happy days again.If you never lived in the sixties, then by all means, you need to watch Bachelor in Paradise for a time travel trip to the past to watch and experience a unique time in our history.

Playboy bachelor writer Bob Hope (as Adam J. Niles) owes back taxes, so he goes to live in "Paradise Village" as "Jack Adams" and work on a titillating new best-seller. The San Fernando Valley suburb turns out to be full of unfulfilled married women, several of whom fawn over Mr. Hope He has reluctantly agreed to refrain from sex, but how Hope quickly forgets. Helping out is beautiful blonde secretary Lana Turner (as Rosemary Howard), the utopian community's spokeswoman who eventually gets cozy with Hope. Not funny or original as a comedy, rather "Bachelor in Paradise" is a fair example of accidentally stylish sixties chic.**** Bachelor in Paradise (11/1/61) Jack Arnold ~ Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss

Bob Hope, a novelist whose main subject is the bachelor's life and how it varies from country to country and the named country's lifestyles, is forced to stay in America to pay his debt to the IRS because his accountant ran off with his money and never filed a tax return for him. His agent places in a residential subdivision to show how the Americans live. Enter Paradise Village and Lana Turner.She leases him her place to live month by month, surrounded by families, whose housewives are home alone with crying babies and who are yearning for change and culture, and here he shows up to help them out of their doldrums. But then with all these fancy ideas he's giving their wives, the husbands think the worst of him and things go from bad to crazy.Being a Lana Turner fan, I might be more gracious in rating this Hope comedy. It certainly is not his best material, but as other reviewers have said, it has its rewards. Namely Janis Paige, who nicely fills out a dress and the believable charm and chemistry between Lana and Bob.Lana loved comedy and enjoyed breaking out and making this film. It shows in the later part of the film, as she loosens up.Its main weakness are one-liners that are more rude than funny and therefore fall flat. But, that's mainly near the beginning of the film. And, get this: this is based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote the classic Laura (the novel, of course.) Costarring Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Don Porter, Reta Shaw, Agnes Moorehead, and Virginia Grey (in one of her five appearances in a film with Lana), this is fun, easygoing film that should be enjoyed for what it is, a good time with one of America's favorite funny men, Bob Hope.