Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Leslie Nielsen, Maureen Arthur
• Directors: Norman Panama
• Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Bci / Eclipse
• VHS Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YS79
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,247 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very funny movie, December 21, 2007

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Charles Finn-neuendorf - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Commit Marriage (DVD)

this is a must see movie for any bob hope or jane Wyman fan.
the cast is great and jane is at her best here.
trading one liners with bob hope

3.0 out of 5 stars Hope's Hippie A- Go - Go, January 1, 2012

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Bruce Corneil (Melbourne , Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Commit Marriage (DVD)

America's favourite comedian gets all caught up in the Age of Aquarius when his free-thinking daughter drops out of college to join a rock group and search for spiritual enlightenment under the guidance of a bumbling Persian mystic. But there's a twist to the usual generation gap scenario. Bob's wayward kid wants to do the "establishment thing" by tying the knot while her parents have (secretly) decided to call it a day on the marital front.

Hope's shot at impersonating the aforementioned guru, complete with flowing robes, turban, fake beard and a drooping orchid which he uses to "bless" his "disciples" provides plenty of chuckles. Another change of costume sees him decked out in a Nehru jacket and sporting a groovy hairstyle as he takes a "space trip" to some pot-filled "Go Go' "joint" down on Sunset.

Although some of the gags fall flat others work just fine as Bob and Jackie Gleason team up to add some real sparkle to the film's better moments.

Hope to the perpetually loaded Gleason: "And about your breath... you could start the windmill on an old Dutch painting".

Bob had just about lost interest in the big screen by this late stage, having decided to concentrate on his top rating TV shows instead. This was, in fact, his second last theatrical release.

Contrary to what many critics would have you believe, this is not a totally bad movie. It's actually a pretty sharp satire of some of the more nonsensical, new age clap trap what was permeating western culture at the time. Even the Beatles quickly realized that they were being taken on a one way elephant ride to fantasyland by their own giggling guru.

As for this one, it's a low key walk - thru which doesn't demand much of its stars but it's still generates enough laughs along the way to keep it going.

Not outstanding but fun

5.0 out of 5 stars FOR THE MUSIC!!!!!, June 27, 2009

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larryj1 (AZ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Commit Marriage (DVD)

Interesting Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason film. The DVD quality is pretty good for this release from the Bob Hope Film Collection. However, it is only presented in a full screen version. Probably the most notable aspect of this film is the opportunity to see the only film appearance I know of for the folk-rock group The Comfortable Chair.