Off Limits (1953)
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Synopsis of Off Limits
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Off Limits
- Bob Hope - Wally Hogan
- Marilyn Maxwell - Connie Curtis
- Stanley Clements - Bullet Bradley
- Marvin Miller - Vic Breck
- Norman Leavitt - Chowhound
- Kim Spalding - Seaman Harker
- Mike Mahoney - MP Huggins
- Mary Murphy - WAC
- Joan Taylor - Helen
- Mickey Rooney - Herbert Tuttle
- Eddie Mayehoff - Karl Danzig
- Jack Dempsey - Himself
- John Ridgely - Lieutenant Commander Parnell
- Art Aragon - Himself
- Jerry Hausner - Fishy
- Tom Harmon - Himself
- Carolyn Jones - Deborah
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Writer(s):
- Hal Kanter, Jack Sher
- Producer(s):
- Harry Tugend
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