Monsieur Beaucaire
Summary:
-Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was the surprising source for this Grade-A Bob Hope comedy. While in the original novel the tonsorial hero pretended to be someone he wasn't by choice, in this 1946 film Hope is coerced into posturing as a nobleman on the threat of death. It's "out of the fry... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Bob Hope - (M. Beaucaire)
Joan Caulfield - (Mimi)
Patric Knowles - (Duc de Chandre)
Cecil Kellaway - (Count D'Armand)
Marjorie Reynolds - (Princess Maria of Spain)
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Review:
Most Bob Hope vehicles are pretty much cut from the same pattern, so what makes one better or worse than the other tends to be the cloth. In that respect, Monsieur Beaucaire is definitely one of Hope's better outings. Not so much an adaptation of the Booth Tarkington original as a free-for-all based upon Valentino's earlier film vers... Continue >>
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