Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake... Read allYoung couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
- Baba Ziba
- (as Professor Irwin Corey)
- David Poe
- (as Tim Matthieson)
- Musician in Waiting Room
- (uncredited)
- Pevney
- (uncredited)
- Stage Manager
- (uncredited)
- Rev. Dempster
- (uncredited)
- Ralph
- (uncredited)
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Also, WHO THE HELL WERE THE COMFORTABLE CHAIR?
Since it's the Sixties, what to do but go live together. Of course with a blessed event arriving that does complicate things.
Now the young folks, Tim Matheson and JoAnna Cameron are presented as fairly intelligent people. So why anyone would listen to religious faker Irwin Corey and give the kid up for adoption is beyond me. But that's what the film asks you to believe.
Two of the funniest men of the last century were Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason. So why they got stuck with a mediocre story idea like this is beyond me. I can't believe that the two of them had they looked could have found a better story idea.
When a golf playing Marquis Chimp steals the film you know you've got trouble.
The centerpiece of the film is howlingly funny, however, as Jackie Gleason suckers Bob Hope into playing a game of golf against Mildred the Chimp for a wager. It's a sucker bet too, and Gleason doesn't even have to rig the game: Gladys humiliates Hope with a display of golf prowess that would have made Jack Nicklaus blush. For some reason I found it hyperventilatingly funny, having trouble breathing as Hope & Gleason decked out in polyester golf outfits find themselves upstaged by a monkey. Only in America.
Did you know
- TriviaFinal feature film of Jane Wyman.
- GoofsDuring the golf match sequence the bag of potato chips Mildred the Chimp is enjoying changes between shots from a full bag to one torn in half then full again.
- Quotes
Oliver Poe: [spotting the recently divorced Bensons with their respective dates, at his standing room only nightclub, dressed like hippies] Well, look who just came in... split-city. I think I'll go over and deflate some egos.
Laverne Baker: Now, Oliver, don't cause any trouble.
Oliver Poe: [gleefully] Me? Trouble? Preposterous!
Oliver Poe: [walking over to Benson's table] Who are you supposed to be, Sabu's mother?
Frank Benson: Look Flabberino, why don't you leave and make room for like six more tables?
Oliver Poe: Sold any mud, lately? Well, well, well. One big happy family. I don't get it.
Oliver Poe: [pointing to the ex-Mrs. Benson] You're with him...
Oliver Poe: [pointing to Lois' breasts] ... and he's with those... I mean, her.
Frank Benson: Back up Moby Dick, how would you like your flab parted in the front, too.
Oliver Poe: I'm getting out of here before I punch a senior citizen in the snoot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
- SoundtracksDream
(uncredited)
Written by Johnny Mercer
Performed by Bob Hope and Jane Wyman
[Frank and Elaine sing the song in their fantasy dance]
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- Evlenmek Yasak
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1