Driving to work this morning, for no particular reason — or at least none I can determine — this line from Son Of Paleface (1952, one of my all-time favorite films) popped into my head:
Junior Potter (Bob Hope): “Where I hail from, we don’t cotton to folks what cotton to other folks’ gals that don’t cotton to folks that cotton to them. That’s cotton talk, see?”
Just rewatched this a week or two back. It’s even better than The Paleface, bordering on the surreal in places. I liked that they retained the saloon from the original – has there ever been a joint with a better name than “The Dirty Shame”
The Dirty Shame is great.
Surreal is the perfect word for Son Of Paleface. The penguins in the back seat, for instance, crack me up.
The penguins in the back seat, for instance, crack me up.
Ah, Martin & Lewis…
I don’t have enough words in my vocab to describe my love for Son of Paleface, a genuine comedy classic. “I’ll just stick to horses, mister…”
“Here’s mud in my throat.”
“She’s from the South end of the furnace.”
“I can’t drink that. The glass is cracked.”
I can go and on and with this thing. Sounds like you can, too!
What’s truly amazing about it, to me, is that as surreal and cartoonish as it gets, you’ve got Roy Rogers and Douglass Dumbrille to make it all official.
Bob Hope looks particularly crazy here.
Jane Russell as the outlaw ” The Torch “, sure has my hormones afire. This Edith Head ” cowboy outfit on Jane is the sexiest on any “cross-dressing cowgirl ” ! Those skin tight riding pants look like the 1950′s Maria Bogner’s stirrup ski stretch pants; more than a coincidence I would say. Her black cowboy boots and gun leather sreams out her feminine sexuality. Jane should have also worn Roy Rogers fancy cowboy clothes, especially his Western Ranch pants , during this movie; she did knock Roy unconscious and could have stripped him and added his duds to her cowboy outlaw wardrobe.
It is just me…but I am not a fan of Western Comedies. If a good western has some funny lines in it than great (Like THE SHEEPMAN) but if it is primarily a comedy in western garb I am usually not too interest.