Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King
• Directors: Frank Tashlin, Sidney Lanfield
• Writers: Frank Tashlin, Damon Runyon, Edmund Beloin, Edmund L. Hartmann, Irving Elinson
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Subtitled
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Bci / Eclipse
• VHS Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YS6T
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,683 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Bob Hope plays a small-time con artist with a fondness for lemon candy in this film based on a Damon Runyon story. When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live. Radio personality Marilyn Maxwell assists as the Kid's girlfriend, while William Frawley and Jay C. Flippen play the lovable, gruff crooks that fall for the Kid's Santa scam.

Hope is great as the fast-talking sharpster, and the comical gangsters are well worth the price of admission. Music by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston (including the classic Christmas song "Silver Bells") makes The Lemon Drop Kid that much sweeter. --Mark Savary

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Christmas movies ever made, January 20, 2004

By	gesegnet (Boise, Id United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lemon Drop Kid (DVD)

The Lemon Drop Kid is one of the lesser known Christmas movies probably because, in a sense, it doesn't try to be a traditional Christmas movie.
Bob Hope plays a con artist who is run out of Florida and winds up in New York City during a very bad cold snap. He is in hock to the mob and desperately needs to raise some cash.
He comes up with a fiendish plan, he sets up a home for old ladies and funds it Santa's ringing bells a la the Salvation Army. The problem is that he intends to take all the money and leave the old ladies stranded on December 26th.
Of course, being a Christmas movie, that doesn't happen, the kid has a change of heart, and along the way the movie provides Bob Hope in his prime as the ever loveable wise guy.
This movie also introduced the wonderful "Silver Bells" which is more famous than the movie itself.
If you're looking to add a movie for Holiday viewing, or really to watch anytime, this is a delightful addition.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DVD a big disappointment..., January 19, 2002

By	Paul Schneider (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Lemon Drop Kid (DVD)

First of all, let me start by saying that I love this film. A true classic: very funny, great songs and wonderful characters. But the DVD looks terrible. Scratches, and even awkward skips in the transfer. Picture is often blurry and sound is muffled. I wish I could say that they had restored it, but it looks more like a bootleg transfer than a legitimate release. The old, out-of-print VHS version had a much better film transfer on it. At least that one didn't frame-skip in the middle of the dialogue like this DVD transfer does! Maybe someday this film will get the DVD treatment it so richly deserves. Oh, by the way--for those who care, there are NO extras to speak of on it.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll love the Brentwood DVD, July 7, 2001

By	Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Lemon Drop Kid (DVD)

The continuing top quality of Brentwood's Bob Hope DVD's is present on this disc. Razor sharp, good tone B&W images help make this top comedy a delight to watch.