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Casanova's Big Night | 
 enlarge | Director: Norman Z. Mcleod
Actors: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 12915
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD053164D
ISBN: 1415713693
UPC: 097360531640
EAN: 9781415713693
ASIN: B0009W5J6E
Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 1954
Release Date: September 6, 2005
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Product Description
Pippo popolino is a lowly tailor who is suddenly dreafted to temporarily impersonate the great & passionate lover cassanova. Along the way our great lover manages to woo some lovely ladies - when hes not dodging spontaneous swordplay or bumbling his way through the finer points of royal etiquette. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Bob Hope Basil Rathbone Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Nr
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Bob "Orson Welles" Hope is at the top of his game in this 1954 Technicolor laugh-fest co-starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone. Hope plays Pippo Popolino, Casanova's tailor, who finds himself standing in for the great lover after the real Casanova (played by Vincent Price) leaves town to avoid paying his debts. Enlisted by an overzealous mother-in-law to test the true love of her daughter-in-law-to-be, Hope must capture the prized petticoat and help avert a civil war to boot. Years before he wore out his welcome in countless TV specials, Hope is a marvel here, perfecting his neurotic and vain coward persona while enganging in some pretty inspired slapstick. It's easy to forget that in 1954 this was pretty edgy stuff. It's no wonder a young Woody Allen idolized him. --Kristian St. Clair
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 Funny! December 15, 2008
E. Sexton (USA)
This movie was pretty funny! It's a typical Bob Hope movie and my mom and I both enjoyed it a lot!
Bob Hope's Casanova Flick September 7, 2008
Robert W. Simmons (Madison WI USA)
Bob Hope's movies are always witty and fun -- this is one of the minor efforts but well worth the pleasure from the classic age of movie comedies. Very good DVD from a fine seller rates AAA++++.
 Casanova's Big Night January 20, 2008
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
This movie is towards the end of Bob Hope's "golden age" but it's still an entertaining movie. He plays Pippo who is the assistant to Casanova's tailor. Hope assumes the role of Casanova which leads to many complications that Pippo is not able to handle. Vincent price makes an unbilled appearance as Casanova. Basil Rathbone is great as the real Casanova's valet &, therefore, valet to Pippo's Casanova. It's a unusual comedic role for him that he is suited for; Rathbone's most famous roles being Sherlock Holmes & the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Adventures of Robin Hood.
DVD quality is excellent but there aren't any bonus features. Enjoy this one. By the very late 50's & early 60's Hope would change directions somewhat in his roles which led to a drop off in quality for his movies.
Plenty of fun, but ... April 28, 2007
Victoria A. Grossack (Switzerland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is LOTS of fun. The pace is great, the lines are delivered well (and some of them are very funny and others are subtlely risque), the gags are wonderful (I love it when Hope dances with the Doge). There's also a wonderful motif having fun with Hope's role - the use of cloth, especially whenever Hope is around, shows up over and over. When Francesca is fighting with the sword, Hope waves a red cape.
My only objection is the ending. There is no ending. Actually, the movie gives two options with respect to Hope's fate - but we never find anything out about Dona Elena, or the creditors back in Parma, or even learn what happened to the real Casanova. Perhaps this is more realistic - I mean, in a romp like this, does the ending really matter? - and yet it does.
For those who wonder, the "real" Casanova was played by Vincent Price (you may recognize the voice but there are a lot of clothes and make up) but he was not credited, as this was the era of McCarthyism.
Good, pre-"Chrysler Theater" Bob Hope! February 21, 2007
Photoscribe (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a movie Bob did while he was still hungry, using his reliable wise-cracking coward character as Pipo Popolino, a tailor's assistant in 18th century Venice. Enamored of a baker played by Joan Fontaine, Pipo masquerades as the legendary Casanova to steal a kiss, when it turns out that Casanova is being pursued by creditors and has skipped Venice completely to escape them. To appease the creditors, everybody Casanova owes money to, Fontaine included, force Pipo to continue his masquerade as the storied rake to get enough money to pay the creditors through marriage. What follows is a crazy quilt of dumb luck and one liners as Pipo actually manages to win a few sword fights and woo a duchess in the bargain.
This is primo, late-period Bob Hope, with an uncredited Vincent Price playing Casanova, Basil Rathbone playing his relunctant valet, Arnold Moss doing his usual Mephistophelian thing as the Doge of Venice amd Audrey Dalton looking just like Linda Darnell in her part as the new object of Pipo-Casanova's affections.
The reception scenes where Pipo challenges a rival for the duchess' affections are sidesplitting, especially when he and Fontaine both have to cross-dress to get in there to begin with. The usual anachronistic Hope oneliners are spewed like apple pits all through the movie and Hope once again proves why Paramount held onto him for something like 25 years! Also why Universal paid Paramount to market some of his movies with a double studio imprint...
The man was a legend!! "Farfle, farfle...pipick!"
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