Here Come the Girls

Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays over-aged chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass, whose attempts to get ahead in the early 20th-century theatre world always come acropper. His luck suddenly changes when he's promoted ...more

Bob Hope tries mighty hard to give a lift to Here Come the Girls, but no comic can save a comedy that simply doesn't have gags. Oh sure, writers Edmund L. Hartmann and Hal Kanter have sprinkled a few winning jokes and situations throughout Girls, but they've also loaded it down with strings of words that may aspire to be jokes but fall far short and set-ups that try to springboard into comedy but just keep missing. Hope's fine; it's not his best performance by far, but he's doing everything he's ...more