Paramount
Directed by Frank Tashlin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(HD-DVD, BCI Eclipse)
Bob gets a big studio budget and Technicolor in this silly western spoof. He plays a recently graduated Harvard man who goes west to claim his father's inheritance. It's a fish-out-of-water tale as he deals with real cowboy Roy Rogers and saloon-girl-by-day, bandit-by-night Jane Russell. It stops for plenty of songs by all of the cast. The action is frenetic, the director obviously inspired by Looney Tune cartoons of the day, as it frequently defies normal laws of physics. Despite all it has going for it, it commits one cardinal sin: it's simply not funny. Silly, yes, entertaining, yes, but funny, no. It doesn't help that Bob is basically a stuck-up, girl-crazy heel, even Roy doesn't like him and that is obvious in their scenes together.
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