Casanova's Big Night
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Actor: Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Bob Hope, Hugh Marlowe, Joan FontaineDirector: Norman Z. McLeod
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland
Producer: Paul Jones
Writer: Aubrey Wisberg
Writer: Edmund L. Hartmann
Writer: Hal Kanter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Casanova's Big Night
DVD Review: a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is typical Bob Hope comedy at its best. It has a little of everything for everyone. It has action, suspence and of course love. I get a laugh out of it everytime I watch it. It is a movie for the whole family .DVD Review: Hope Rathbone Price And Fontaine
Summary: 4 Stars
If that doesn't whet your appetite...nothing will. Hope is funny. Rathbone is funny AND villianous. Price is the great Casanova himself (yes, kiddies there was a time when Vincent Price was thought of as a handsome leading man in Hollywood circles)in what amounts to a cameo.
Fontaine is the perfect foil for Hope's antics. Family fun all the way and in color for the kiddies. This print is very good. All in all I have to give it four stars just for the Grand Ball scene.
DVD Review: Funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was pretty funny! It's a typical Bob Hope movie and my mom and I both enjoyed it a lot!DVD Review: Bob Hope's Casanova Flick
Summary: 4 Stars
Bob Hope's movies are always witty and fun -- this is one of the minor efforts but well worth the pleasure from the classic age of movie comedies. Very good DVD from a fine seller rates AAA++++.DVD Review: Casanova's Big Night
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is towards the end of Bob Hope's "golden age" but it's still an entertaining movie. He plays Pippo who is the assistant to Casanova's tailor. Hope assumes the role of Casanova which leads to many complications that Pippo is not able to handle. Vincent price makes an unbilled appearance as Casanova. Basil Rathbone is great as the real Casanova's valet &, therefore, valet to Pippo's Casanova. It's a unusual comedic role for him that he is suited for; Rathbone's most famous roles being Sherlock Holmes & the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Adventures of Robin Hood.
DVD quality is excellent but there aren't any bonus features. Enjoy this one. By the very late 50's & early 60's Hope would change directions somewhat in his roles which led to a drop off in quality for his movies.
Description of Casanova's Big Night
Set in 18th century Italy, CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT tells the story of a tailor, played by Bob Hope, who impersonates the swashbuckling lover Casanova in order to win the affection of an attractive widow.Bob "Orson Welles" Hope is at the top of his game in this 1954 Technicolor laugh-fest co-starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone. Hope plays Pippo Popolino, Casanova's tailor, who finds himself standing in for the great lover after the real Casanova (played by Vincent Price) leaves town to avoid paying his debts. Enlisted by an overzealous mother-in-law to test the true love of her daughter-in-law-to-be, Hope must capture the prized petticoat and help avert a civil war to boot. Years before he wore out his welcome in countless TV specials, Hope is a marvel here, perfecting his neurotic and vain coward persona while enganging in some pretty inspired slapstick. It's easy to forget that in 1954 this was pretty edgy stuff. It's no wonder a young Woody Allen idolized him. --Kristian St. Clair
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