Far from Bob Hope's best
Bob Hope is remembered today primarily for his annual TV specials filmed in locations around the world as he entertained servicemen with shows filled with pretty performers and Hope’s rapid-fire one-liners. But he was a major star in the late 1930s through the early 1960s, peaking in a series of Road pictures with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour at Paramount, his home studio. His efforts without Crosby, however, vary considerably in quality.<br /><br />“Never Say Die” casts Hope as hypochondriac millionaire John Kidley, who believes he will die shortly of a mysterious digestive ailment and has gone to spend his final days at the Swiss spa Bad Gasswasser. Unbeknownst to him, however, a chemist has mistaken a dog’s stomach acid report for his. Having just wriggled out of an engagement to the much-widowed stalker of rich bachelors Juno Markoff (Gale Sondergaard, “The Letter”), he meets hapless Texas heiress Mickey Hawkins (Martha Raye, “Hellzapoppin”) at the spa.<br /><br />Mickey’s father (Paul Harvey, “Spellbound”) has promised Mickey to gold digger Prince Smirnow (Alan Mowbray, “I Wake Up Screaming”), but she’s in love with hometown boyfriend Henry Munch (Andy Devine, “Pete Kelly’s Blues”). Kidley suggests that they both can solve their problems by marrying each other, temporarily. As they prepare to flee the spa for their “honeymoon,” Henry arrives and insists on chaperoning them. Meanwhile, the bypassed fortune hunters Prince Smirnow and Mrs. Markoff join forces to attack Kidley for cheating them out of their anticipated windfall.<br /><br />The convoluted plot is overly complex for a Hope comedy and the laughs are in short supply. Hope plays a variation of his comic coward as he tries to extricate himself from a sticky situation. The screenplay by Don Hartman, Frank Butler and Preston Sturges strains to be funny but the jokes mostly fall flat. Hope is surprisingly restrained and doesn’t engage in much slapstick as in his other pictures. In most of his films from this period, he rattles off one-liners with machine-gun rapidity. Here, other stars share the screen and reduce Hope to an ensemble player.<br /><br />Martha Raye, known for broad physical comedy, often upstages Hope with her antics, which are more manic than amusing. She also sings the film’s only song, the dopey ”The Tra La La and the Oom Pah Pah,” as she cavorts across the screen. One of her trademarks, the comic double take, is hardly evident here. Director Elliott Nugent seems to have deliberately downplayed her best comic abilities. Her performance seems desperate rather than witty. She tries too hard, and it shows to her disadvantage.<br /><br />Andy Devine is wasted in a thankless role and Sondergaard, looking glamorous, plays Mrs. Markoff as a clever banterer rather than an evil seductress, a role the actress could easily have handled. Sig Rumann (“A Night at the Opera”), a character actor always good for laughs, also seems subdued as confused innkeeper Poppa Ingleborg. Monty Wooley (“The Man Who Came to Dinner”) has a brief turn as Dr. Schmidt.<br /><br />The one bright spot occurs late in the film, when a terrified Kidley meets the Prince for a dual. One of the pistols contains a bullet, the other a blank. Mickey passes a clue to Kidley in a tongue-twister identifying the loaded gun — “There’s a cross in the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet and a nick in the handle of the pistol with the blank.” This sentence is delivered again and again by assorted characters who progressively mangle it beyond comprehension. If you think this sounds like a precursor to the “pellet with the poison” scene in “The Court Jester,” made 17 years later,  you’re right. The version in “Never Say Die” is a clever play on words that peps up an otherwise lackluster film.<br /><br />The film has a hurried appearance, as though director Nugent was fighting a strict deadline. I got the impression that, with a few more takes in certain scenes, the jokes could have been polished better. At a mere 82 minutes, the film drags and fails to develop the characters. They’re simply familiar caricatures in the service of an overly familiar plot.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the unrated, Region A Blu-ray release include an audio commentary and several trailers featuring Bob Hope.<br /><br />Though classed as a screwball comedy, “Never Say Die” lacks the sharp wit and sophistication that characterize such pictures. Though contrivance is an element of the genre, “Never Say Die” goes too far afield in its attempts to milk laughs from a labyrinthine plot. Fans of Bob Hope will be disappointed that the material isn’t up to his talents. Those looking to see Hope at his best should check out any of the Road pictures or “The Ghost Breakers.” “Never Say Die” is sub-par Hope and a tepid comedy at best.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : A misdiagnosis of only a month to live sends millionaire hypochondriac Bob Hope (The Ghost Breakers) into the arms of Martha Raye (Hellzapoppin’) and on a madcap matrimonial romp through a Swiss spa in this side-splitting screwball comedy. A deadly widow (Gale Sondergaard, The Spider Woman Strikes Back) tries to trap bean king Mr. Kidley (Hope) into a hasty wedding, but Kidley runs to the altar with oil heiress Mickey (Raye), who is dodging an arranged marriage to a pompous prince. Now the jilted ex-fiancés are chasing the newlyweds in one hilarious honeymoon that includes Mickey’s beau from back home (Andy Devine, Canyon Passage), a daring duel at dawn and non-stop comic mayhem from frequent Hope helmer Elliott Nugent (The Cat and the Canary, My Favorite Brunette) and the great screenwriters Don Hartman (Road to Singapore), Frank Butler (Road to Morocco) and Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)..