Off Limits [Blu-ray]

Director: George Marshall George Marshall

Overview

At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes up for his chronological unsuitability. Hope plays the manager of boxing champ Stanley Clements, who has just received his draft notice. Gangster Marvin Miller strong-arms Hope into enlisting himself to keep tabs on Clements; when the latter is given a medical discharge, poor Hope is stuck in uniform. During training, Hope makes the acquaintance of draftee Mickey Rooney, an aspiring boxer who wants Hope to handle him. There's one obstacle, however: the Mick's aunt doesn't want her nephew to box. Hope promises to talk the "old lady" into his way of thinking, only to discover that Rooney's aunt is the luscious Marilyn Maxwell. Before the climactic bout between Rooney and Clements, Hope and Rooney sign up to be military policemen under the aegis of buffoonish CO Eddie Mayehoff. If Bob Hope looks slightly uncomfortable at times in Off Limits, it is probably because he isn't politely inclined to such upstarts as Mickey Rooney and Eddie Mayehoff getting most of the laughs.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/20/2013
UPC:	0887090071505
Original Release:	1953
Rating:	NR
Source:	Olive
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	27,129

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bob Hope	Wally Hogan
Mickey Rooney	Herbert Tuttle
Eddie Mayehoff	Karl Danzig
Marilyn Maxwell	Connie Curtis
Stanley Clements	Bullet Bradley
Jack Dempsey	Himself
Marvin Miller	Vic Breck
John Ridgely	Lt. Cmdr. Parnell
Tom Harmon	Himself
Norman Leavitt	Chowhound
Art Aragon	Himself
Kim Spalding	Seaman Harker
Jerry Hausner	Fishy
Mike Mahoney	MP Huggins
Joan Taylor	Helen
Carolyn Jones	Deborah
Mary Murphy	WAC
Nathan VanCleave	Composer

Technical Credits

Hal Kanter

Jack Sher

Harry Tugend	Producer
George Marshall	Director
Hal Kanter	Screenwriter
Jack Sher	Screenwriter