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Il re della Louisiana

Titolo originale: Louisiana Purchase
  • 1941
  • Approved
  • 1h 38min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Bob Hope, Irène Bordoni, Victor Moore, and Vera Zorina in Il re della Louisiana (1941)
CommediaMusicale

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

  • Regia
    • Irving Cummings
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Buddy G. DeSylva
    • Morrie Ryskind
    • Jerome Chodorov
  • Star
    • Bob Hope
    • Vera Zorina
    • Victor Moore
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,1/10
    577
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Irving Cummings
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Buddy G. DeSylva
      • Morrie Ryskind
      • Jerome Chodorov
    • Star
      • Bob Hope
      • Vera Zorina
      • Victor Moore
    • 16Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    • Candidato a 2 Oscar
      • 1 vittoria e 2 candidature totali

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    Bob Hope
    Bob Hope
    • Jim Taylor
    Vera Zorina
    Vera Zorina
    • Marina Von Minden
    Victor Moore
    Victor Moore
    • Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
    Irène Bordoni
    Irène Bordoni
    • Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
    Dona Drake
    Dona Drake
    • Beatrice
    Raymond Walburn
    Raymond Walburn
    • Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    • The Shadow aka Wilson
    Phyllis Ruth
    Phyllis Ruth
    • Emmy Lou
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Robert Davis, Jr.
    Donald MacBride
    Donald MacBride
    • Capt. Pierre Whitfield
    Andrew Tombes
    Andrew Tombes
    • Dean Albert Manning
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • Speaker of the House
    Charles La Torre
    • Gaston, Waiter
    Charles Laskey
    • Danseur
    Emory Parnell
    Emory Parnell
    • Sam Horowitz, Lawyer
    Iris Meredith
    Iris Meredith
    • Lawyer's secretary
    Catherine Craig
    Catherine Craig
    • Saleslady
    Jack Norton
    Jack Norton
    • Jester
    • Regia
      • Irving Cummings
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Buddy G. DeSylva
      • Morrie Ryskind
      • Jerome Chodorov
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    6CinemaSerf

    Louisiana Purchase

    This starts off with quite a fun little ditty that serves as their libel/defamation disclaimer - proclaiming that none of this is based on any real people! Who might have taken offence in the US of A in 1941 to the idea of a senate investigation into the dodgy goings on in any state at all, let alone Louisiana? Well it appears that the imminent arrival of the tee-total "Sen. Loganberry" (Victor Moore) has set the cat amongst the pigeons, and talking of pigeons it looks like "Taylor" (Bob Hope) is going to become exactly that. The great and the good of his state have been merrily creaming off the top for years, but any evidence of their miscreant behaviour will stop firmly with this poor patsy. Facing a million years in jail, the bosses encourage him to find a way to leverage their inscrutable visitor and so he'd better get his thinking cap on. What now ensues sees Hope (well two of him quite often) and his friend "Marina" (Vera Zorina) try to embroil the man in all sorts of compromising scenarios. Of course, as things mosey on along there are a few romantic opportunities with Irène Bordoni making up this quartet of mischief and mayhem. It's based on the stage play with a few Irving Berlin numbers - notably "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely? - amongst it, and though it does drag a little as the joke borders the slapstick too closely for my liking, it does show Hope in a slightly less hapless light, Moore delivers engagingly and there's been a little thought gone into the plot to keep it from farce. It's a colourful and lively production and might well do wonders for the sale of oysters in Nebraska.
    9edalweber

    Hilarious satire of "Mr. Smith goes to Washington!

    Excellent movie with many beautiful sets and funny jokes by that master Bob Hope,The Mardi Gras parade and the French Quarter in which it is set are Idealized and certainly not realistic but that was typical of musical comedies,like the pictures of Astaire and Rogers,typical of the period,so it is nothing to criticise,just a lot of fun,the filibuster scene is outrageously funny,and full of references to the movie it parodies.The set looks like the real Louisiana State senate chamber,but apparently is not.This movie is loads of fun and after all that is the purpose of comedies.Zorina is lovely amnd makes a good foil for hope.All in all a wonderful picture!
    3planktonrules

    Amazingly unfunny...

    Aside from some terrible films Bob Hope made in the 1960s (and there were quite a few), "Louisiana Purchase" may be among his worst for two major reasons. The biggest problem is that the film simply is not funny—a serious problem since it's a comedy! The other problem is that Hope plays a very unsympathetic character—and it's hard to root for him throughout this film that seems, at times, like a misguided rip-off of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".

    The film begins with a very unusual and rather cute disclaimer about the film being fictional—you have to see this to understand what I mean, but it's obvious that the film makers chose to lampoon Louisiana since the state has a very, very long history of political corruption.

    Hope plays a state senator with very unsavory friends. While he's serving in the senate, they are involving him in all kinds of illegal deals—completely unbeknownst to him. However, and this is odd, when he discovers what they've done, he does NOT come clean about the illegal activity but spends almost all the film trying to blackmail or corrupt an honest(!) politician who is investigating the activities of Hope's organization. While I liked Victor Moore as the sweet and daffy crusading US senator, everything about Hope seemed self-centered and sleazy. And, inexplicably, a lady who somehow has come to instantly love him has agreed to try to destroy Moore! This made little sense—as did her weird reversal after they were able to set him up. The final portion of the film is right out of "Mr. Smith" and ends with an ending that just seems too pat and hard to believe.

    As I said, nothing about this is funny nor is the leading man (Hope) likable—and without these elements the film cannot help but be a failure. Watchable but only of interest to very rabid Hope fans—ones who are willing to look past the film's many, many deficits.

    By the way, this is on a DVD with another Hope film—"Never Say Die". This second film IS very good and makes the disk worth obtaining.
    5ilprofessore-1

    From stage to screen, disastrously

    Although many of the same people who made this mess of a 1941 film were also involved in the original hit 1940 Broadway production, something definitely went wrong in the transition to film, and that something is Bob Hope who was not in the original show. Instead of letting this mild satire on contemporary politics in the style of "Of Thee I Sing" play as it must have in New York, Hope and his army of gag writers apparently shoved in a ton of meaningless machine gun gags, including a few on such wartime topics as immigration. The Norwegian ballerina Vera Zorina, wife of George Ballanchine at the time, was then a big star on Broadway, but pretty as she was, the camera did not love her. The only saving grace of this embarrassingly misguided musical is the superb clowning of the great Victor Moore as the befuddled senator. He, too, was a great star of the theater, but unlike the others in this film he somehow knew how to underplay his comedy for the camera. A few of the many songs Irving Berlin wrote for Broadway were retained for the film, most delightfully the catchy tune, "You're Lovely and I'm Lonely," which Zorina and Moore do hilariously as they might have done it on Broadway, in this case without the overbearing scene-stealing presence of Hope. Hope was a great screen personality and made many fine films, but this is not one of them.
    7rsoonsa

    SOME OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS BROUGHT TOGETHER.

    Comedian Bob Hope, in his first Technicolor performance, effortlessly portrays Jim Taylor, a political lackey of the Louisiana Purchasing Company who is unaware that he is being gulled, replacing William Gaxton who starred on Broadway in this long-running satirical comedy, featuring music and lyrics by irving Berlin. Although the original work by Morrie Ryskind, with its sardonic savaging of politicians and their methods, is carefully muted in this cinematic version, there remains much to enjoy as Taylor frantically struggles to avoid taking a rap for the misdealings of a coterie of his graftsodden superiors, played effectively by such as Donald MacBride and Frank Albertson. An opera bouffe opening serves to explain to the audience that in order to avoid onerous lawsuits, Louisiana must be accepted as a mythical location, with a bevy of comely singers offering the standard "no resemblance" disclaimer for the decoy State. Victor Moore, Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni reprise their stage roles from a work sadly seldom performed since, with the veteran director of musicals Irving Cummings doing his best to retain some of its operetta nature and still permit Hope to gambol about as the target of a Congressional investigation headed by Senator Oliver P. Loganberry (Moore). The screen play generally fails to capture the essence of its source, and therefore much of Hope's timing is wasted upon poor material, while Moore is so torpid that he appears to be more sleep deprived than anything else. Raoul Pene Du Bois formulated the beautiful costumes and designed the splendid sets, including that for a traditional dream ballet sequence showcasing prima ballerina Zorina, and plot propelling and witty lyrics by Berlin, although too often cut, enhance the overall production, particularly the delightful title piece, sung and danced to by alluring Dona Drake. The opening scenes fare best, in particular that wherein Emory Parnell, a top studio lawyer, reads the script and then dictates a singspieled letter in rhymed couplets to advise executives against replicating the original show, a very clever and funny beginning to this lavish Paramount motion picture.

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      Irène Bordoni and Vera Zorina both repeated their roles from the original Broadway stage version.
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      Sam: [looking at Marina] Boy, if she were black, she'd be beautiful!

    • Connessioni
      Version of Musical Comedy Time: Louisiana Purchase (1951)
    • Colonne sonore
      LAWYER'S LETTER
      Written by Irving Berlin

      Sung by Emory Parnell

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    • Data di uscita
      • 31 dicembre 1941 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Paramount Pictures
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      • 1h 38min(98 min)
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