Never as funny as it might have been, THE PALEFACE is a Bob Hope vehicle that has the old ski-nose playing "Painless" Potter, a bumbling dentist out West who gets tangled up with Cal;amity Jane (Russell) and a bunch of gun runners. Jane is a government agent sent to stop the bad guys, and she marries Painless so she can pose as a clueless married woman. Along the way, she makes her new husband appear to be a fearless gunfighter. The film is long and just not all that funny. Obviously, writer Frank Tashlin agreed, as he made his own sequel several years later that is a real hoot. In SON OF PALEFACE, Painless' grown son teams up with Roy Rogers and Trigger to fight the bad guys. Nothing against Jane Russell, but in the case of these two movies, I'll take Trigger.
Review of The Paleface
