The Paleface (1948)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Norman Z. McLeod

Writers:

Edmund L. Hartmann (original screenplay) and
Frank Tashlin (original screenplay) ...

Release Date:

24 December 1948 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Tagline:

She can shoot a gun almost as fast as BOB can run !

Plot:

Calamity Jane is despatched 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.

Plot Keywords:

Dentist | Calamity Jane | Wagon Train | Secret Agent | Undercover

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Bob Hope	...	'Painless' Peter Potter
Jane Russell	...	Calamity Jane
Robert Armstrong	...	Terris
Iris Adrian	...	Pepper
Bobby Watson	...	Toby Preston (as Robert Watson)
Jackie Searl	...	Jasper Martin (as Jack Searl)
Joseph Vitale	...	Indian Scout
Charles Trowbridge	...	Gov. Johnson
Clem Bevans	...	Hank Billings
Jeff York	...	Big Joe
Stanley Andrews	...	Commissioner Emerson
Wade Crosby	...	Jeb
Chief Yowlachie	...	Chief Yellow Feather
Iron Eyes Cody	...	Chief Iron Eyes
John Maxwell	...	Village gossip

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:U | Canada:G (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Annette Warren, who sang for Ava Gardner in Show Boat (1951) and Lucille Ball in Fancy Pants (1950) was also the singing voice for Iris Adrian in The Paleface (1948).

Quotes:

Potter: Going west in a covered wagon. That's my kind of life. Blazing new frontiers, facing danger, privation, and death. Is *that* my kind of life?

Movie Connections:

Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Buttons and Bows

it IS for children

I have seen this movie in the German dubbed version when I was 7 years old and it was the very first movie I ever have seen in a cinema. I was absolutely stunned, especially with the "special-effect" of Bob Hope being hurled away from a tree. I liked the movie very much those days and even today, when it occasionally shows up in our TV, I still like it.