Call Me Bwana Reviews

By 1963, most of Bob Hope’s quality screen work was behind him. He’d still have occasional movie hits like Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number, but none of his films really registered as top notch comedies. Gordon Douglas’ Call Me Bwana is certainly one of his more forgettable outings. True to his usual formula, he’s got a voluptuous woman for a co-star (two, in fact, this time out), and he’s plopped his cowardly character into another exotic locale, but the writing is uninspired, and the laughs just aren’t there to any consistent degree. Without an able comedy cohort (and despite two beautiful co-stars, he doesn’t have that here – where are you, Bing Crosby?), the film simply lies there and dies there apart from an infrequently agreeable sight gag or ad-lib.

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