Review of Going Spanish

Going Spanish (1934)
2/10
Bob Hope was right when he made an insult about his first film appearance in Going Spanish
22 February 2016
Nearly 30 years before just now rewatching this on YouTube, I had previously watched this short on a Goodtimes VHS tape that also had a "Jack Benny Program" with Bob Hope as guest along with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and a Bing Crosby short. Yes, Hope made his film debut in this and yes, he told columnist Walter Winchell this infamous quote about it-"When they catch John Dillinger, they're gonna make him sit through it twice!"-which promptly get him fired from the studio responsible for it-Educational Pictures. The lame plot has Bob in a Spanish town where he's allowed to insult anyone-as long as he sings a song afterward. Only amusing parts were when he judged some ugly faces and when he and Leah Ray sang a song that had some passersby inadvertently ending some lyrics with insults. In summary, Going Spanish is only worthy to see as the first film of a legendary comedian and nothing more.
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