Is Bob Hope's character here the model for Woody Allen's character of Boris Grushenko in "Love and Death"?
Both characters travel to a distant city disguised as someone above their station.
Woody's character is praised for his "inadvertent heroism", and so is Bob's. Bob's characters are always pretty craven, from "The Cat and the Canary" right on through, but Woody's are usually just neurotic and a little timid, rather than cowardly. There is a closer correspondence here than usual.
Both films contain a mock duel which Bob/Woody manages to win. There is also an overlapping duel joke or two.
Woody plays Casanova with the luscious Countess Alexandrovna.
I only saw a portion of "Casanova's Big Night" so I can't make a fuller comparison between these two costume comedies, one set in the late 18th century, the other in the early 19th.
In general, this film seemed to me to be one of the weakest Hope vehicles that I've seen, although I've always laughed at the film's ironic title.
Both characters travel to a distant city disguised as someone above their station.
Woody's character is praised for his "inadvertent heroism", and so is Bob's. Bob's characters are always pretty craven, from "The Cat and the Canary" right on through, but Woody's are usually just neurotic and a little timid, rather than cowardly. There is a closer correspondence here than usual.
Both films contain a mock duel which Bob/Woody manages to win. There is also an overlapping duel joke or two.
Woody plays Casanova with the luscious Countess Alexandrovna.
I only saw a portion of "Casanova's Big Night" so I can't make a fuller comparison between these two costume comedies, one set in the late 18th century, the other in the early 19th.
In general, this film seemed to me to be one of the weakest Hope vehicles that I've seen, although I've always laughed at the film's ironic title.