I had never been a a Bob Hope fan but after this picture I am! He is so aggressive, energetic and funny in this screwball comedy directed by George Marshall. I also have never seen Mickey Rooney so young and boy was he also a Powerhouse very funny and very energetic also he and Bob Hope made a wonderful team I wonder why they never made more films together they would have been a hit. This is the first and only time teeming of these comedy Legends,
Bob Hope plays Wally Hogan, a boxing trainer who loses his one and only Champion to the draft and decides to enlist so he can keep an eye on his prize fighter. He is left holding his laces when his boxer is discharge until enlisted private and amateur boxer Herbert Tuttle Rooney ask Wally to train him. But Wally is more interested in tuttle's Aunt play by the beautiful Marilyn Maxwell then actually training the youn pcontender
It's a wonderful, full of delicious cameos if you don't blink among the notable cameos are Charles Bronson in a 30-second uncredited wordless bit he is in the scene where Hogan is talking to the military police at the gym I'm training Mickey Rooney Bronson's 30 seconds can be seen in the background with him sparring with another Boxer and that was it. Also Carolyn Jones has a uncredited bit as one of the many girlfriends that Hogan has in the beginning of the film also actress Mary Murphy as an uncredited bit if you remember her she was and the wild one with Marlon Brando. Also Doucet has an uncredited bit as a barfly he had also starred in the wild one with Marlon Brando. Tom Harmon yes Mark Harmon's father is in this film also.
Review of Off Limits
