Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Forrest Tucker, Anne Archer
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303382460
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,585 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cancel My Reservation, July 17, 2003

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Ivan Romanov VII (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cancel My Reservation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is truly one of Bob Hope's best movies. It is funny from the very start to the ending credits. The theme song is catchy with a great beat. Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint are great together and have a comedy chemistry that can't be beat.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cancel My Film Career!, July 30, 2009

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cancel My Reservation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

By 1972, critics, moviegoers and studio executives had tired of Bob Hope's increasingly lame comedies. "Cancel My Reservation" was definitely a last gasp, with Rapid Robert going through the motions in this painful adaptation of Louis L'Amour's "The Broken Gun." Hope already exhausted the murder-mystery angle in his earlier vehicles and the only laughs come from a series of surprise cameos. Unlike George Burns, it's a shame that Hope did not allow his comic persona to age gracefully.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Terrible, But Far From Great, August 30, 2004

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markus king "markus" (Winston-Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cancel My Reservation [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In his final film (not counting two later cameos), Bob Hope stars as a TV talk show host on vacation who gets mixed up in murder and mayhem.
First of all, it should be noted this was his first film since 1969's dismal HOW TO COMMIT MARRIAGE, and was no great improvement. Hope's films had been suffering badly since the mid 60's: his delivery became increasingly wooden, the writing was getting sub-par, and worst of all, Phyllis Diller became his frequent partner in cinema crime.
She's not here in CANCEL, fortunately, but the film still suffers from an uneven plot and writing that awkwardly wavers from comic to dramatic, with Hope seeming ill at ease in both.
CANCEL does benefit from a decent supporting cast, with Eva Marie Saint as his discontent wife, Forrest Tucker and Ralph Bellamy as the bad guys, and Anne Archer (many years before FATAL ATTRACTION) as an indian local(!).
One of the films most bizarre moments may also be its funniest- a dream sequence where Hope is being put to death by an all-too-willing crowd that includes Bing Crosby, Flip Wilson, and, of all people, John Wayne.
The films' most appealing feature? The title song! You may be best off tuning in only for the beginning and the end of the film just to hear it...