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Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was the surprising source for this Grade-A Bob Hope comedy. While in the original novel the tonsorial hero pretended to be someone he wasn't by choice, in this 1946 film Hope is coerced into posturing as a nobleman on the threat of death. It's "out of the frying pan" time here, since Hope will be a target for execution the moment he weds a Spanish princess in place of genuine

Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

Melvin Frank

May 19, 1993

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Above-average Bob Hope costume comedy… borrows its title and inspiration from a silent Rudolph Valentino romance-drama, but transforms the original premise of a duke disguised as a barber into a farce about a real barber and a duke switching places.

August 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | Comment
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Very enjoyable Bob Hope comedy, good cast, fine costumes and a very funny screenplay. Fine supporting cast, some great one liners, very much in Mr. Hope's style of humor.

February 4, 2010
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James Higgins

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