Bob Hope and the modern scene never did mix. His comedy technique belonged essentially to a world of fiendish oriental spies, mad doctors and anything that exposed a yellow streak running up the centre of his back. Thus it's not surprising that the most successful parts of this latter-day Bob Hope comedy are his exchanges with fellow-veteran Jackie Gleason as an alcoholic impresario. (`Your breath,' Hope tells him, `could start the windmill on an old Dutch painting') and the occasionally very funny visual gags, especially the ending. Less successful are interludes with Hope as hippie or mystic, invading the world of his teenage daughter, who has decided to live with her fiance, when her parents decide to divorce.


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