Themes: Flight of the Innocent, Mistaken Identities, Nothing Goes Right
Main Cast: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord
Release Year: 1966
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
Plot
Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but it isn't nearly as bad as some of his other sixties efforts (take a look a Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell sometime). The plot is set in motion by movie sex bomb Elke Sommer, who flees from the set of her latest picture when she refuses to do yet another bathtub sequence. Sommer hides out in the home of real estate agent Hope, who is forced to keep the buxom starlet under wraps lest his wife Marjorie Lord misunderstand. Phyllis Diller plays Hope's maid, who conspires with her boss to keep Sommer out of sight. The plot lumbers forward to a wild climax wherein Hope, accused of Sommer's murder (she's still very much alive), embarks upon a slapstick car chase, chock full of Sennett-like sight gags. Though cheaply produced and perilously anachronistic, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is professionally assembled by director George Marshall, a Hope colleague from way back. The film turned a tidy profit, thanks largely to the popularity of Hope's costar Phyllis Diller. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Kelly Thordsen - Schwartz; Ben Baker - Regan; Terry Burnham - Doris Meade; Joyce Jameson - Telephone Operator; Harry Von Zell - Newscaster; Kevin Burchett - Larry Meade; Keith Taylor - Plympton; John Todd Roberts - Newsboy
Credit
F. Paul Sylos - Art Director, George Beck - Associate Producer, Marjorie D. Corso - Costume Designer, George Marshall - Director, Grant Whytock - Editor, Dick LaSalle - Composer (Music Score), Hal Lierley - Makeup, Mike Moschella - Makeup, Lionel Lindon - Cinematographer, Edward Small - Producer, George Beck - Screenwriter, George Kennett - Screenwriter, Burt Styler - Screenwriter, Albert E. Lewin - Screenwriter, Harold E. Knox - Production Supervisor
A gorgeous actress named Didi (Elke Sommer) has become more famous for commercials involving bubble baths than for acting. Fed up with the situation, she winds up running away for a while to Oregon, where she encounters a middle-aged married man (Bob Hope) who quickly becomes extremely anxious to explore their acquaintanceship further.
