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Director
  
Paul Bogart

Set decoration
  
Anthony Mondell

Country
  
United States

4.6/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Mystery

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Cancel My Reservation movie poster
Release date
  
September 21, 1972

Writer
  
Bob Fisher, Louis LAmour (novel), Arthur Marx

Genres
  
Comedy, Mystery, Crime Fiction

Cast
  
Bob Hope
(Dan Bartlett),
Eva Marie Saint
(Sheila Bartlett),
Ralph Bellamy
(John Ed),
Forrest Tucker
(Reese)

Similar movies
  
Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint appear in Cancel My Reservation and That Certain Feeling

Tagline
  
It's Bob (Wanted dead or alive) Hope.

Henry darrow 1972 cancel my reservation


Arizona police and his wife (Eva Marie Saint) ask a TV talk-show host (Bob Hope) about an Indian girls corpse in his hotel room.

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Cancel My Reservation movie scenes

Cancel My Reservation is a 1972 comedy film starring Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint, and directed by Paul Bogart. The ironically entitled movie was Bob Hopes last of over 50 theatrical features as leading man, a screen run begun in 1938.

Cancel My Reservation movie scenes The most famous scene from the 1972 Best Picture winner The Godfather and arguably one of the most famous scenes in movie history took place at a

Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.

Plot

Cancel My Reservation movie scenes The Ridiculous Though the movie is generally very entertaining there are a few scenes and details that let it down somewhat Most perplexing is the scene

Television personality Dan Bartlett, having difficulties with his wife and TV co-star Sheila, retreats to his Arizona ranch. When the body of Mary Little Cloud is found in his car trunk, Dan is placed under arrest.

Freed for lack of evidence, Dan returns home to find attractive, scantily clad Crazy Hollister there. Her stepfather John Ed owns a half-million-acre property nearby. Crazy is upset that John Ed has blocked her inheritance and may have even murdered her mother.

Sheila shows up and believes she has caught Dan having an affair, but Crazy convinces her thats not true. Meanwhile, county recorder Snagby tries to blackmail John Ed with information Mary Little Cloud gave him, but John Eds evil henchman Reese has him killed. Sheriff Riley once again thinks Dan is responsible.

The Bartletts are taken captive by Reese and sealed inside a cave. There they renew their love. Riley is able to free them while Crazy finds proof that Mary Little Cloud had a document showing her tribe to be the lawful owner of John Eds land. Reese is betrayed by John Ed, who ultimately learns that crime doesnt pay. Dan and Sheila cant wait to get back to their old lives.

Cast

  • Bob Hope as Dan Bartlett
  • Eva Marie Saint as Sheila Bartlett
  • Ralph Bellamy as John Ed
  • Forrest Tucker as Reese
  • Anne Archer as Crazy Hollister
  • Keenan Wynn as Sheriff Houndtooth Riley
  • Chief Dan George as Old Bear
  • Pat Morita as Yamamoto
  • Tracy Bogart as Teenage Girl
  • Betty Ann Carr as Mary Little Cloud
  • Henry Darrow as Joe Little Cloud
  • Doodles Weaver as Cactus (Deputy Sheriff)

    • Uncredited cameo appearances

  • Johnny Carson
  • Bing Crosby
  • John Wayne as Himslf
  • Flip Wilson

    • Similar Movies

    Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint appear in Cancel My Reservation and That Certain Feeling. Bob Hope appears in Cancel My Reservation and My Favorite Blonde. Bob Hope appears in Cancel My Reservation and Alias Jesse James. Bob Hope appears in Cancel My Reservation and They Got Me Covered. Bob Hope appears in Cancel My Reservation and Critics Choice.

    Reception

    Like most of Bob Hopes later movie efforts, Cancel My Reservation was not a success at the box office and was panned by critics. Hope and his wife Dolores attended the films premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City (incidentally during a strike by the Musicians Union, which prevented the band or the Rockettes from performing) and he reputedly bemoaned that he was getting too old to play a leading man and therefore would not make another feature film.

    References

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