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Visage pâle

Original title: The Paleface
  • 1948
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
4.8K
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Jane Russell and Bob Hope in Visage pâle (1948)
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Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.

  • Director
    • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Writers
    • Edmund L. Hartmann
    • Frank Tashlin
    • Jack Rose
  • Stars
    • Bob Hope
    • Jane Russell
    • Robert Armstrong
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    4.8K
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    • Director
      • Norman Z. McLeod
    • Writers
      • Edmund L. Hartmann
      • Frank Tashlin
      • Jack Rose
    • Stars
      • Bob Hope
      • Jane Russell
      • Robert Armstrong
    • 50User reviews
    • 34Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Bob Hope
    Bob Hope
    • 'Painless' Peter Potter
    Jane Russell
    Jane Russell
    • Calamity Jane
    Robert Armstrong
    Robert Armstrong
    • Terris
    Iris Adrian
    Iris Adrian
    • Pepper
    Bobby Watson
    Bobby Watson
    • Toby Preston
    • (as Robert Watson)
    Jackie Searl
    Jackie Searl
    • Jasper Martin
    • (as Jack Searl)
    Joseph Vitale
    Joseph Vitale
    • Indian Scout
    Charles Trowbridge
    Charles Trowbridge
    • Gov. Johnson
    Clem Bevans
    Clem Bevans
    • Hank Billings
    Jeff York
    Jeff York
    • Big Joe
    Stanley Andrews
    Stanley Andrews
    • Commissioner Emerson
    Wade Crosby
    Wade Crosby
    • Jeb
    Chief Yowlachie
    Chief Yowlachie
    • Chief Yellow Feather
    Iron Eyes Cody
    Iron Eyes Cody
    • Chief Iron Eyes
    John Maxwell
    John Maxwell
    • Village gossip
    Tom Kennedy
    Tom Kennedy
    • Bartender
    Henry Brandon
    Henry Brandon
    • Wapato (medicine man)
    Francis McDonald
    Francis McDonald
    • Lance
    • (as Francis J. McDonald)
    • Director
      • Norman Z. McLeod
    • Writers
      • Edmund L. Hartmann
      • Frank Tashlin
      • Jack Rose
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    bob the moo

    Probably Hope's best film – his comic style in a well structured film

    Gunslinger and criminal Calamity Jane is released from prison by the Governors in exchange for her help with a problem. Someone is selling guns and dynamite to the Indians and other agents have been killed trying to find out who – only someone like Jane can get close. When her partner is killed she has no-one to act as her husband and help her travel incognito. She happens across a cowardly dentist, Painless Peter Potter, and she marries him in order to get a ride to Buffalo. However, can she keep him out of trouble long enough to find the dynamite?

    Bob Hope may be 100 years old as I write this but he has been out of movies for quite a few years, also he only tended to make one type of film and play the same part in each one. So the appeal of this film very much depends on whether or not you like that. Personally I love Bob Hope and enjoy him even when he is in a weak film. The Paleface is one of his best films simply because it is a good piece of all round entertainment. It has a good central plot that stops the film just being a vehicle for him to do his stuff and instead is actually going somewhere.

    The songs are quite nice but also there's only really two so it doesn't slow the film down too much. I do like the odd musical number but some Hope films had 5 or more songs in a 90 minute film, which was way too many. Hope is on good form, his asides and jokes work better in a good plot and he is very funny throughout. Some routines work better than others but if you are a fan then you'll like his style even when it isn't as funny as you'd hope. Russell is a good leading lady despite being a bit serious and then softening too quickly. The support cast are all in the background and the Native American clichés can be explained by the period and not racism.

    Overall this is a very enjoyable film that works well because it allows Hope to run free within a good film instead of simply letting his performance be the film. He wisecracks his way along and it is easy to see why his light comic style has made him an icon even with a generation who have found him on their television and not the big screen.
    8hitchcockthelegend

    Painless Peter Potter.

    Bob Hope is in his element in this type of role, here he plays a dopey dentist named Painless Peter Potter, he is the kind of dentist that pulls the wrong teeth and gets high on his own laughing gas. Here he manages to get involved with Calamity Jane {a positively smouldering Jane Russell} and a caper set around rouge Cowboys selling guns and dynamite to the Indians. After mistakenly being taken for a hero after repelling an Indian attack and killing a number of them during said attack, we are taken on this delightful journey as Potter the coward transforms himself into a bravado gun slinger whilst not realising it's actually Calamity pulling his strings and shooting the pistols. It's a smashing comedy that perfectly showcases Hope's immeasurable talent for delivering one liners, in fact few comedians in history can deliver a quip better than Hope could. The chemistry between Russell and Hope is as sharp as the writing, and to cap it all off we get the delightful song Buttons & Bows to hum along to, smashing uplifting comedy, 8/10.
    6Lejink

    Painless but Hopeful

    An enjoyable comedy western featuring the formidable, if different talents of its leads Bob Hope and Jane Russell. Hope plays his customary cowardy-custard character, a travelling dentist of all things named "Painless" Potter alongside Russell's mannish Calamity Jane as they seek to foil the baddies' nefarious plan to arm the Red Indians, but pay no attention to the plot, just like the two stars, and instead enjoy the fun romp they gleefully rampage through.

    Filmed in glorious Technicolor, the film makes ample room for running gags, like Russell's hammer-like kisses and Hope getting pulled out of his wagon-chair every time he gees up the horses, but is best served by Hope and his ad-libs and one-liners (sample:- Hope trying to act tough at the bar - "Give me four fingers of red-eye - and throw in a thumb too!"). The funniest extended scene is probably when Hope and a hot-shot rival stalk each other around town before their shoot-out. The humour trails off somewhat in the last third when the comedy gets too cartoony and slapsticky but there's still some compensation as Russell's glacial heart melts towards her oafish husband.

    Sure the treatment of the Red Indians / Native Americans is about as un-PC as you can get, but the real villains are the white guys and along the way Hope gets to sing the catchy singalong "Buttons and Bows". Popular enough to beget a sequel "Son Of Paleface" a few years, this is one of Hope's best comedies sans-Crosby and also demonstrated Russell's comedic talents at the same time.
    7blanche-2

    nice western spoof

    I confess a weakness for the Bob Hope of the '40s - cute, funny, and guileless. His cowardly persona played well in many films.

    "The Paleface" is the story of Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) being broken out of jail and offered a full pardon by the government if she can track down who is running guns to the Indians. Unfortunately, the man who is to accompany her on the wagon train to investigate is murdered.

    While running from people out to get her, she ends up in the office of Painless Peter Potter, a dentist who has to use a manual when he's working on a patient. He has his own wagon; Jane recruits him to marry her and join the wagon train.

    Hope and Russell are great together. She's gorgeous in color wearing a variety of costumes. Hope is very funny, and he gets to introduce the song "Buttons 'n' Bows." One of the best scenes is Painless Peter trying to pull a tooth; another is an Indian who inadvertently inhales Peter's laughing gas.

    Not exactly politically correct by today's standards, but it's still fun and wonderful to see these classic film stars, whose number is dwindling with alarming speed.
    Snow Leopard

    A Pretty Good Showcase For Bob Hope

    This works pretty well as a showcase for Bob Hope's comedic and other talents. While it's hardly anything to take seriously, it allows the ever-likable Hope to be himself and to make use of the opportunities for one-liners, sight gags, and a song or two, including his "Buttons and Bows". The story is exaggerated enough to render moot most questions of believability or character motivation.

    Hope is in good form, delivering his lines well and in a style that keeps things light-hearted while not pushing it too far. His role as 'Painless' Potter suits him well, and he is able to carry much of the movie by himself. That is fortunate, since most of the rest of the movie is rather slight. Jane Russell starts off well enough, but it's not long before she has little new to offer, and her character is left with some unfulfilled potential. The other characters are mostly one-dimensional to begin with.

    Then again, this kind of feature is not really meant to be analyzed. It gives Hope a chance to deliver his easygoing style of comedy, and should just be taken as such. It also worked well enough to provide the basis for a pretty good sequel.

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    • Trivia
      Until Le shérif est en prison (1974) came out, this was the highest grossing western parody of all time.
    • Goofs
      When the gunrunners arrive in the Indian village they are seen to be travelling in a covered-wagon in one shot, and on an open buckboard covered with furs in the next shot.
    • Quotes

      Potter: I've been chased by women before, but never when I was awake!

    • Alternate versions
      Remade in 1968 as The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades.
    • Connections
      Edited into Your Afternoon Movie: The Paleface (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      Buttons and Bows
      by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

      Sung by Bob Hope

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    • Release date
      • February 16, 1949 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Paleface
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 31m(91 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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