Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

No matter if I've now seen this Western comedy umpteen times boy and man it still makes me laugh. There isn't much subtlety and there's plenty of farce but it's still an entertaining story with many sparkling quips to be had from Bob Hope in classic form.Jane Russell as Calamity Jane is sprung from jail by government undercover men, in the hope she will help them track down some white baddies running arms to the Injuns, and in return for a full pardon. On the way she enrols the unwitting Hope playing a not-so-painless dentist. One memorable scene follows another, not a minute is wasted in the ninety – even the slapstick sections (such as Hope stopping to growl a bit too much) are brief. And the cute song Buttons And Bows won the Oscar so maybe should be sat through respectfully. Favourite bits: Nestor Paiva laughing at the pain he was in after the wrong tooth was extracted by a laughing Hope with both under the influence of laughing gas; Hope apparently giving the marriage JP a kiss; the trouble had taking the reins; Hope not fooling with Joe's gal – and the offhand reprimand he later gave Joe's corpse; the lean to the right sequence (Danny Kaye's later take on it in The Court Jester was better though); the happy film having a happy ending; so many others. The production values were high, the Technicolor warm, the direction tight, and thankfully the humour was decidedly middlebrow.One of my favourite Bob Hope films it was meant for ordinary people to enjoy thoughtlessly, a concept that is always derided by clever people. Thanks to its immense antiquity this maybe had an abundance of stereotypes of all types but it had a good heart and humour, something missing in the later Western comedy Blazing Saddles. I wonder idly how many untrained moviegoers in 1948 would've laughed if Hope and the other cowboy characters in here had sat around at length swearing and bursting their fluffboxes?

A typical Bob Hope comedy made more interesting by the presence of the recently deceased Jane Russell.Hope had the honor of singing Buttons and Bows, and the song went on to win the Oscar in 1948.The premise of the movie is quite humorous. To get pardoned for her transgressions, Russell must find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians. When the agent assigned to be her husband is killed, she finds unlikely candidate Hope as an eastern-correspondent school dentist and quickly marries him.Whoever made the costumes for Russell deserved some kind of award. In many scenes, she was made to look frumpy, far out of her usual realm.The picture goes down in quality once she and Hope are captured by the Indians. Some real good straight shooting by Russell makes Hope look like the town hero. This is always good for a laugh.

Bob Hope is in his element in this type of role, here he plays a dopey dentist named Painless Peter Potter, he is the kind of dentist that pulls the wrong teeth and gets high on his own laughing gas. Here he manages to get involved with Calamity Jane {a positively smouldering Jane Russell} and a caper set around rouge Cowboys selling guns and dynamite to the Indians. After mistakenly being taken for a hero after repelling an Indian attack and killing a number of them during said attack, we are taken on this delightful journey as Potter the coward transforms himself into a bravado gun slinger whilst not realising it's actually Calamity pulling his strings and shooting the pistols. It's a smashing comedy that perfectly showcases Hope's immeasurable talent for delivering one liners, in fact few comedians in history can deliver a quip better than Hope could. The chemistry between Russell and Hope is as sharp as the writing, and to cap it all off we get the delightful song Buttons & Bows to hum along to, smashing uplifting comedy, 8/10.

The first thing I noticed about this movie is that the plot is similar to that of The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts, which was made 20 years later. This worried me a little at first, because although I love The Shakiest Gun in the West, I didn't want to watch a movie that was almost exactly the same except that it starred a different person. However, I didn't let this stop me from watching the entire movie, and I was pleasantly surprised. Enough of the story was different that it didn't get boring, and of course Bob Hope lended his own acting style and sense of humor, so I ended up really enjoying it. In fact, in some ways I liked this movie better than The Shakiest Gun in the West. If you like Bob Hope movies, you'll probably enjoy this one. I know I sure did!