Spoken:
I’ll show you how to own the moon
And how to bounce the world just like a toy balloon.
We’ll show you how to have your way
And help yourself to wishes on a silver tray.
At it’s heart, High Barbaree is the story of a young man who gives up on his dreams, regrets it, and tries to turn around. As two World War II airmen are shot down, afloat in the ocean, one of them (Van Johnson) tells the other his story. The story of High Barbaree.
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In Swing Fever, a country boy (Kay Kyser) comes to the big city and gets entangled with a crooked fight manager.
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Silver bells, silver bells
It’s Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, (ring-a-ling) hear them ring (ting-a-ling)
Soon it will be Christmas day
Critic’s Choice – 1963 comedy pairing Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Ball is a young playwright while Hope is her husband – and a drama critic.
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Amy Fisher falls in love with Aubrey Piper, a loudmouth and braggart who pretends to be more than the lowly clerk he is. She marries him, over her family’s objections. Aubrey can’t seem to stop insulting others or interfering with their lives. He accidentally sets her inventor brother Joe’s laboratory on fire, wrecks a car, drives it without a license, gets kicked off a radio show for offending the sponsor and blows Joe’s deal with a paint company.
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movie review of “The Lemon Drop Kid” starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell an!d William Frawley – where a gambler must raise money at Christmastime – or else!
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