Top-notch comedy in every department and with the great Bob Hope showing his comical skills . This hilarious western spoof is wickedly funny , marvellously self-aware with lots of entertainment and amusement . Agreeable comedy/musical/western with genuine and sympathetic characters , it is plenty of humor , tongue-in-cheek , bemusing gags and lots of fun . Hope plays Milford Farnsworth an Inept insurance salesman who sells a man a $100,000 policy but he results to be Jesse James . When his boss learns the man was the famous bandit he sends Milford after him who returns to claim his policy , which is nowhere to be found. As a cowardly Hope with money to buy back the policy becomes a gunslinging hero when Jesse/Wendell Corey starts aiming for him . There he unwittingly takes on bad guys . Along the way he meets a beauty Rhonda Fleming . Bob Hope rides the range bareback in the biggest gun, gal and gag stampede in the West ! . Make way for 'Drag-a-long' Hope !. This town ain't big enough for both of us !. Look who they gave a gun !. Bob Hope As the Most Wanted Trigger in the West! . As the Most Wanted Figger in the West!
A rip-roaring Western/comedy as the conventions of the Wild West are turned upside down . This funny picture is a gag feast , plenty of humor , diverting situations and absurd sketches in Leslie Nielsen style . This one was just as good and had even a few more funnier moments including the scenes with Jesse James , the fight with the gunslingers , and , of course, the climatic chase scene , all of them make a fun good time . Adding a lot of cameos from TV stars and others known stars , such as : Fess Parker of Daniel Boone , Hugh O'Brian of Wyatt Earp , James Arness of Gunsmoke, Jay Silverheels of Lone Ranger , Roy Rogers , Gary Cooper , Bing Crosby , Jack Lambert, Jim Davis , Mike Mazurki , Iron Eyes Cody, Ward Bond , Bob Reeves , among others . One of Bob Hope's best , full of cartoon like gags , unheralded comedy classic . This was a worthy successor to the original ¨Paleface¨ and ¨Son of Paleface¨ , made in similar wake . Amusing and spasmodic comedy with the genius comic Bob Hope acting in his stereotyped role by relinquishing creative control and concentrating on humor based on destruction and wreak havoc , nice inventive bits , skilfully combining the entertainment with the amusement . Bob runs away with every cowboy cliché and even arranges to wind up with the girl . Gorgeous as well as sultry Rhonda Fleming who ropes the nervous Hope into marriage for the sake of his job . Bob Hope played and produced three Westens spoofs , this ¨Alias Jesse James¨(1959) , along with ¨Paleface¨ was also directed by Norman Z MacLeod starred by Hope as a bungler dentist , Jane Russel as Calamity Jane and Robert Armstrong , its sequel ¨Son of Paleface¨ results to be as good as the original , that was remade in 1968 as ¨The shakiest gun in the West¨ , with Don Knotts and Jackie Coogan .
The motion picture was well directed by Norman Z MacLeod . His first successful full-length film was ¨Taking a Chance¨ (1928) for Fox . He was one of Paramount's top directors when he shot two early films with The Marx Brothers, ¨Monkey Business¨ (1931) and ¨Horse Feathers¨ (1932), both considered among the team's best . Other memorable work from McLeod includes ¨It's a Gift¨ (1934) with W. C. Fields , ¨Topper¨ (1937) with Cary Grant and the Danny Kaye comedy , ¨Secret Life of Walter Mitty¨ (1947) . Rating : 6,5/10 . Entertaining and amusing movie that will appeal to Bob Hope fans . Worthwhile watching .
