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Bookmark this pageThe Paleface (1948)
Director: Norman Z McLeod
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hope in perhaps his finest role as Painless Potter, a quack dentist travelling the Old West and getting into deep waters when he meets and is married by the trouble-shooting Calamity Jane as a cover for her secret activities as a government agent. The gags centre as always around his bluff bravado, but he was rarely given a better script (to which Frank Tashlin contributed) or a more responsive partner than the wittily seductive, sardonic and deceitful Jane Russell.Author: GA
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Cast & crew
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Producer: Robert L Welch
Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Robert Watson, Clem Bevans full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 91 mins
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