BOB HOPE double feature (dvd) *NEW* and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed double feature is Out Of Print and no longer being manufactured. Sorrowful Jones was filmed in Black White while Paleface is in color. SORROWFUL JONES is a shifty Broadway bookie who becomes a reluctant foster parent when a gambler leaves his daughter, Martha Jane, as collateral for a bet. When the father is killed by mobster Big Steve Holloway, Sorrowful decides to hide Martha Jane from the authorities, lest the poor girl gets thrown in an orphanage. Lucille Ball co-stars as Sorrowful's erstwhile girlfriend Gladys, who along with Martha Jane is insturmental in "reforming" the cynical Jones. The climatic scenes, wherein Sorrowful tries to smuggle a horse into a hospital in order to bring the little girl out of a coma, deftly combines slapstick with sympathy. PALEFACE: Hope plays East Coast dentist "Painless" Peter Potter, so named because of his use of laughing gas on his customers. Painless is ready to hang up his pliers and head back west when he is duped by Jane Russell into getting married and joining a wagon train heading west. Unfortunately for Painless, Russell is actually sharpshooter "Calamity Jane" and she is working with the law to track down some men travelling in the wagon train who are selling guns and dynamite to the natives--and she just needs Painless as a cover. When the wagon train is ambushed, the cowardly Painless hides in a barrel and starts shooting. When he gets out, there are 11 dead Indians. Everyone--including him--assumes he must be a dead shot; of course, Jane actually made those kills but she lets Painless take the credit to keep the gunrunners off her scent. Painless is more than pleased to take on the mantel of a Western hero, which makes him mighty popular--and makes him a big fat target too!