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Critic's Choice

1963, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Critic's Choice: Review

A successful Broadway play that makes the transition to celluloid not nearly so successfully. Even the talents of Hope and Ball can't salvage this film's implausible plot. Hope is cast as the usual one-dimensional character-this time as a theater critic who must review his wife's new play. Realising his review could ruin his marriage, he reluctantly decides to write the review, but not before booze, analysis, and the comfort of first wife, Maxwell. Arriving drunk at the ope... read more leave a comment

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Bob Hope and Lucille Ball star in the movie Critic's Choice (1962) based on Ira Levin's Broadway comedy hit.
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Posted: 8/1/2008

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Comic luminaries Bob Hope and Lucille Ball play husband and wife in a humorous tale about a scathing theater critic who must review a new play... written by his wife. Co-starring Rip Torn ("The Larry Sanders Show"), and based on a play by Ira Levin ("Rosemary's Baby").
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Length: 01:39:59
Posted: 5/12/2009

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Critic's Choice: Cast & Details

Year: 1963
Rated NR

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Cast
Bob Hope: Parker Ballantine
Lucille Ball: Angela Ballantine
Marilyn Maxwell: Ivy London
Rip Torn: Dion Kapakos
Jessie Royce Landis: Charlotte Orr
John Dehner: S.P. Champlain

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