Fancy Pants | 
 enlarge | Director: George Marshall
Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 12205
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD062084D
ISBN: 0792198670
UPC: 097360620849
EAN: 9780792198673
ASIN: B0001ZWLTC
Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1950
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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Product Description
A zany redhead and her mother bring a bogus british butler back to frontier new mexico. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Bob Hope Bruce Cabot Run time: 92 minutes Rating: G Director: George Marshall
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Bob Hope is up to his classic shenanigans in Fancy Pants, a loose remake of the comedy favorite Ruggles of Red Gap. Hope plays Humphrey, an American actor playing a British butler in a hokey play in London. When a fortune-hunter hires the cast to help him woo a wealthy American girl (Lucille Ball, playing her character like a female John Wayne), the girl's domineering mother takes a shine to Humphrey and hires him to be their butler back in New Mexico. But when they arrive out West, the townsfolk believe that Humphrey is British nobility, and even Teddy Roosevelt drops by for a visit. Despite their different comic styles, Hope and Ball have an oddball chemistry together; throw in some musical numbers, physical slapstick, and a shaggy dachshund, and the results will please any Hope fan. (There are, however, some unfortunate racial stereotypes.) --Bret Fetzer
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 Fancy Pants, Classic Bob Hope Film September 7, 2008
Robert W. Simmons (Madison WI USA)
Bob Hope's movies are all sparkling with goodhearted & witty humor. This DVD of a classic costarring somebody named Lucille Ball is a ton of fun rating A+A+A+A+A.
 badbones September 1, 2008
James R. Barger (Cedar City, Utah)
another bob fancy farce that works with some belly laughs to boot. L Ball does an ok job but hope is funny.
Thanks for the Memories July 7, 2008
D. Hendrickson (St. Charles, Mo. USA)
Bob Hope and Lucy Ball what a team; only those of us baby boomers can appreciate the humor and fun these two created. I enjoyed every fun loving minute this movie had to offer. my teenage kids on the other hand walk out after about the first half hour, "what do they know anyway". This movie is for those of us who remember that funny doesn't have to come with those nasty four letter words to get a laugh out of you. I recommend this product to adults and fun loving kids who can appreciate clean humor.
"Hey, Fancy Pants!..." May 9, 2008
Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Reunited for the first time since their box-office success in "Sorrowful Jones" (1949), 1950's FANCY PANTS (a musical remake of "Ruggles of Red Gap" by Harry Leon Wilson) cast Bob Hope as a phoney British butler, with Lucille Ball as his hell-raising, tomboyish employer.
Engaged in a British touring theatrical troupe, struggling actor Arthur Tyler (Bob Hope) literally lands the role of a lifetime when New Mexico millionairess Effie Floud (Lea Penman) drags him back home as the new butler, in the hopes he'll also be a calming influence for her unruly daughter Agatha (Lucille Ball). Aggie, in the meanwhile, decides to use "Humphrey" (as he's now known) to create some sparks of jealousy with her cowboy squeeze (Bruce Cabot). And when the rest of the townsfolk mistakenly start to believe that "Humphrey" is the Earl of Brimstead, all hell breaks loose!
Bob Hope and Lucille Ball were always great value when paired together, but FANCY PANTS might well be their best co-starring vehicle. This is an energetic, high-octane musical version of "Ruggles of Red Gap" (previously filmed in 1935 with Charles Laughton and Mary Boland in the leads). Lucy glows in Technicolor (her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren). The cast also boasts Jack Kirkwood, Norma Varden, Eric Blore and John Alexander.
The DVD has a brilliant restored Technicolor print, but sadly no extras. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Fancy Pants December 29, 2007
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
The teaming of Hope & Ball proved to be a successful one. This is a funny movie but not quite as good as Paleface or Son of Paleface. Hope is an out of work actor who gets hired by a family out west. The family is "new" money & they're a pretty raw bunch. They want Hope, who they think is a British valet, to polish up their daughter (Ball) so that she would have the manners of a lady, more acceptable to the genteel. It's the typical Hope shenanigans as he goes through his paces. Ms. Ball doesn't want to be "citified" so she rebels at everything Hope tries to do. And, of course, they fall in love by the end but not before Hope's life is on the line.
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