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Starring: Bob Hope
Rated: G (General Audience)
Type: DVD
Directed By: George Marshall
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 2004-06-29
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

Fancy Pants, Classic Bob Hope Film
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
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
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!..."
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
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.