Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Goingbegging Not believable - and not meant to be.Prairie outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey) visits New York with a bagful of stolen dollars, and overhears a desperate salesman (Bob Hope) trying to sell life-insurance to a bartender. This gives him an idea - why not fake his own death and retire on the proceeds? The Hope character eagerly delivers the loot to his boss, proud of having sold such a huge policy, not realising he has just insured a famous bandit. The boss orders him to go West and guard Jesse at all times, to save a payout that would bankrupt the company.It's really an excuse for another Hope movie in the popular 'Paleface' style, and a vehicle for Rhonda Fleming as Jesse's fiancée, displaying reasonable talent as a singer and comedienne, but mainly just dazzling us with one look from those limpid eyes.The gags are seriously creaky, and there appears to have been some clumsy editing, with lines that don't lead anywhere. But all the expected shootouts, poker-games and bar-room brawls are there to keep the story moving.Hope is his predictable self. Corey is nowhere near sinister enough to be Jesse, and should have swapped roles with the famously lean-mean Jack Lambert, playing only a small part as Jesse's rival in town, spoiling for a fight.But in any case, the show is stolen by an 80-year old unknown (Mary Young) as Jesse's doting mother, and briefly by Gloria Talbot as a young Indian princess.Couple of Missourian in-jokes - Corey, but not Hope, pronouncing it as 'Missoura', and a small boy with glasses giving his name as Harry Truman.For reasons we won't reveal, an all-star cast of film and TV gunslingers, with Bing Crosby roped-in too, make their cameo appearance near the end.

MartinHafer This is one of Bob Hope's films before his movies really went downhill in quality in the 1960s. And, like his better films this is a period piece--his last one, in fact. Now I am not saying it's a great film but it is amusing and features a truly wonderful final climactic scene that makes the film worth seeing--but I'll say no more about this because it would ruin it.The film begins with Hope working for an insurance company but it's hard to understand why his poor boss (Will Wright) keeps him on the payroll. He hasn't sold a single policy and the closest he came to it was a guy who died before they could complete the required physical! In fact, after further screw ups, Wright has finally had enough and tells him to get lost. Soon afterwords, Hope meets up with a stranger (Wendell Corey--in an odd bit of casting) who buys a huge policy. Wright is so happy he rehires Hope. Unfortunately, it soon becomes apparent the new policy holder is Jesse James and Wright is worried this policy will bankrupt them, as EVERYONE seems to want James dead! So, he sends Hope out west--to find Jesse and stay with him to prevent an early demise or give him a refund and cancel the policy. Along the way, Hope has various cute encounters with tough guys and Rhonda Fleming. I don't want to say more, but this mildly amusing farce works up to a wonderful finale and was a was worth my time. Not a great film but pretty good.

Neil Doyle The Bob Hope movies I liked best were the ones that were a mixture of mirth and murder (CAT AND THE CANARY, THE GHOST BREAKERS), where he played the cowardly hero who gets the girl in the final reel. His westerns were fun too, films like THE PALEFACE or SON OF PALEFACE. It's good to report that ALIAS JESSE JAMES fits the standard for his western spoofs, all done up in fancy Technicolor and given a good cast.The comic set-up has him selling a life insurance policy to Jesse James (WENDELL COREY) and then told by his bosses that he must go out west and get the policy back at all costs--even if it means his own life, since the policy is worth $100,000. BOB HOPE, of course, takes the assignment and gets mixed up with the James brothers (brother Frank James is played by JIM DAVIS). Not only is he surrounded by a gun-toting gang but he falls in love with Jesse's girl (RHONDA FLEMING), who is fed up with Jesse and ready for a new beau.The laughs are steady as Hope fumbles his way through one laughable but impossibly silly situation after another, ready with the one-liners and getting the most out of a zany script. A chase toward the end is full of sight gags that work and the final shootout shows him shooting at the town villains while others do the actual killing shots--including GARY COOPER, JAMES ARNESS, WARD BOND, ROY ROGERS, GAIL DAVIS and, no surprise, BING CROSBY.It's a lightweight romp for Hope and Fleming, with WENDELL COREY surprisingly good as Jesse James and MARY YOUNG doing a nice job as his gun-toting ma.Briskly directed by Norman Z. McLeod, it's simple minded fun played in broad farcical style by a pleasant cast and one of Hope's better films during the '50s.

whpratt1 Enjoyed this very funny Western Film with Bob Hope, ( Milford Farnsworth) starring as a life insurance salesman who sells a policy to Jesse James, (Wendell Corey) the famous gangster cowboy. Milford Farnswoth also follows Jesse James West to see that Jesse stays alive. Milford gets himself adjusted to the West and meets up with a very pretty young woman named Cora Lee Collins, (Rhonda Fleming). Cora Lee happens to be the saloon singer and girlfriend of Jesse James and Milford gets himself involved with a marriage ceremony and makes a good job of having the Bride run away with him and the funny thing is that Jesse James future wife Cora Lee happens to be the bride. There are plenty of cameos of famous actors in this film, namely: Trigger, the horse of Roy Rogers and Roy Rogers, James Arness, Ward Bond, Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby. This is a great entertaining film and you will not want to miss this film if you have never view this film. Enjoy.