The Paleface

The Paleface (1948)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 64% of users liked it
    (2,611 ratings)

Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless Potter, a hopelessly inept dentist who heads west to seek his fortune. Meanwhile, buxom female outlaw Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is engaged in undercover work on behalf… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Western, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 24, 1948 Wide
On DVD
Mar 5, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    The plot is slender and silly, but Bob Hope and Jane Russell have some good moments in a comedy that was very popualar and led to an equally popular sequel.

  • Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

    Funny Hope western farce, but inferior to its sequel "Son of Paleface."

  • Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

    Hope at his peak; Russell in top form; a winner.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    This Technicolor western spoof is probably Bob Hope's finest film role.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Hope at his best, but he went it one better with SON OF PALEFACE

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  • Barry L


    Alright I know I know but you just have to love theses schmooltsy wannabe westerns.....The singing was great and Russell was a seriously gorgeous laydee....

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