He's an accident waiting to happen, the 'understudy" for the real Casanova. Bob Hope makes it clear through actions and words that he's about as Casanova like as a tree, and it turns out to be one of his last truly great comedies. The real Casanova (Vincent Price) has Hope stand in for him due to extreme debts, and even though he doesn't look like a Casanova, his humble tailor manages to fool the nobility including the lovely Audrey Dalton and hawk nosed villain Arnold Moss.
Filled with very funny visuals, starting off with a heavily made up and accented Hope Emerson as a duchess who seeks out Casanova to help her. An incredible supporting cast includes usual villains playing decent men aiding Hope (Basil Rathbone and John Carradine), Joan Fontaine (second billed yet underused as a peasant grocer), Hugh Marlowe, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Raymond Burr and Robert Hutton.
Very funny and colorfully sumptuous, this has Hope wearing some of the most audacious noblemen costumes that automatically get laughter, and of course his cowardice is the opening for lots of farcical gags. Lines like "Women are like oranges. If you've squeezed one, you've squeezed them all" are hysterically delivered by Hope who manages to create a memorable character rather just a fictional version of himself. Makes a great double bill with his other comical costume farce, 1946's "Monsieur Beaucaire".
Filled with very funny visuals, starting off with a heavily made up and accented Hope Emerson as a duchess who seeks out Casanova to help her. An incredible supporting cast includes usual villains playing decent men aiding Hope (Basil Rathbone and John Carradine), Joan Fontaine (second billed yet underused as a peasant grocer), Hugh Marlowe, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Raymond Burr and Robert Hutton.
Very funny and colorfully sumptuous, this has Hope wearing some of the most audacious noblemen costumes that automatically get laughter, and of course his cowardice is the opening for lots of farcical gags. Lines like "Women are like oranges. If you've squeezed one, you've squeezed them all" are hysterically delivered by Hope who manages to create a memorable character rather just a fictional version of himself. Makes a great double bill with his other comical costume farce, 1946's "Monsieur Beaucaire".