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Kerri H Jul 3 It's good but not great. Bob Hope and Lucille Ball are both hilarious... usually. In my opinion, the dialougue was just too "jokey." One sets them up and the other delivers the punch line. It came off as hokey and stale. When they're not telling jokes, it's a pretty good story. See more Steve D 07/20/2020 Cute but completely forgettable. See more 08/03/2019 Although I grew up with Bob Hope, he is not funny here or anywhere. His "humor" grows worse and worse with age. Lucy is not funny or capable of acting, outside of her interactions with Desi Arnaz and Vivian Vance. This movie is another dud, something Lucy became famous for after the wild popularity of the 1950s. See more 08/03/2019 Very funny and so true See more 01/10/2015 Oddly semi-serious Bob Hope and Lucille Ball comedy. Bob and Lucille are both trapped in separate loveless marriages but have a fling in Acapulco when they find themselves there without their spouses. Most of the film takes place after they return home and find themselves seeing each other at bridge parties and other social situations and the two then decide to continue seeing each other secretly. Bob is still filled with snapping one line zingers, but the drama lays our fairly seriously, though the film has (SPOILER ALERT!) a very disappointing and dated ending where the two "come to their senses" and decide it's better for their families to stay in a loveless marriage. Overall, it's an interesting change of pace for Hope and the drama plays out fairly well despite his out of place zingers. Saul Bass provided one of his usual cool title sequences. See more Steve S 11/23/2014 ***Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.*** See more Read all reviews

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