Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

gunnellis SonOfMoog wrote an earlier review where he talked about being 11 years old in 1959 and laughing so hard at the movie's end that his sides ached. The scene of Bob Hope stuck halfway through the wagon floor and having to run to keep up with the speed of the horses was so damn funny I thought I would die. I was probably 11 as well. But I was seeing it triple feature style as a re release in !963? 1964?. What is interesting about this scene is that it gave me so much pleasure I naturally wanted to recapture those moments. So I watched it again, the same day. ( My Mom used to leave me for most of the day at these triple features.) It was my first lesson that humor requires surprise and discovery to be truly funny. I watched this no longer hilarious scene play out again with ten percent of it's original impact. Sad, but it's the way we are built. I just re watched it on Netflix Streaming. And barely laughed at all. 57 vs 11 is a big part of the problem there. The cameos are still great. It would be nice to find the original, intact, cut.

user-264 This is a great movie. The music was sung by Guy Mitchell with all original songs. Great music and a funny movie. If you like comedy westerns this is a great one.I can't get over the music though. Guy Mitchell had one of the best voices ever. And these original songs are classic. Wish I could get a hold of the sound-track.There will never be another Bob Hope. Seems like comedy today is nothing but dirt. Bob's was clean and funny and adult. This is probably the best comedy western ever completed by Hope. Too bad they couldn't keep the original cameos i.e. Gene Autry was in the original at the ending gunfight.

bkoganbing Bob Hope plays his usual dimwitted cluck who in this film happens to be an insurance salesman. Only Hope, one step from being given the boot and desperate to sell a policy, would sell one to Jesse James. Jesse being the smart guy he is decides this has potentiality. He can fake his own death and lay low for a while with a nice nest egg. Bank robbery, train robbery, his usual line of work does have some risk attached to it. Now guess who the schnook he figures he'll bump off to be the dead Jesse James? Why its Hope come west to protect Jesse until the home office figures a way to cancel the policy.I saw this in the movies way back when I was 12 years old and it first came out. As such I appreciated fully the significance of the cameo appearances of all those TV western stars. TV westerns were at their height at that time so anyone who saw this knew for instance that Ward Bond was Major Seth Adams of Wagon Train. Today, I wager, that viewers will recognize Bond as Bert the Cop from It's A Wonderful Life unless Wagon Train is being run on Hallmark at the time. Similarly Gail Davis as Annie Oakley or Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp (a show I wish some cable channel would pick up). Nice gag, but dated now.Nevertheless its a very funny picture with the lovely Rhonda Fleming as Jesse's girl and beneficiary until she falls for Hope. So many smart women keep falling for Hope the schnook in his films. Wendell Corey is a crafty Jesse James with Jim (Dallas) Davis as brother Frank. And of course the obligatory appearance by Bing Crosby.

Matthew_P_Johnson I don't know much about Bob Hope except that he was a famous comedian in a time when the majority of TV shows and movies were westerns. Although "Alias Jesse James" was produced 15 years before Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles , it is still an equally enjoyable western-comedy.Mel Brooks plays Milford Farnsworth, an insurance salesman from New York whose career is failing. Farnsworth unknowingly sells a life-insurance policy to Jesse James (Wendell Corey) at a bar. When his employer finds out that Jesse James is a policy holder in the company, he sends Farnsworth to the west to try and get Jesse James to cancel his policy and if he won't, he wants Farnsworth to protect his life. There is an ironic scene on a train where Jesse James robs Farnsworth of his own premium return. Farnsworth is then left to protect Jesse James at all costs.Farnsworth meets Cora Lee Collins (Rhonda Fleming), Jesse James love interest and mistakingly falls in love with her. Throughout the rest of the movie Farnsworth fears for his own life while protecting the life of Jesse James. The best scene in the movie is the shootout at the end, where Farnsworth never hits anyone but thinks that he does because there are citizens hiding in doorways and windows, doing Farnsworth's job for him.If you are in the mood for a clean comedy with an enjoyable plot, this is the movie for you. It is a nice break from the comedies today that rely on sexual jokes and pure stupidity. I saw it on AMC but I definitely plan on buying it and adding it to my library.