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"Painless" Peter Potter
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The Paleface: Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian. Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
The Paleface. Summaries. Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover. Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane and a secret agent go undercover posing as man and wife.
Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is working undercover for the U.S. government, trying to capture a gunrunner named Terris (Robert Armstrong) in exchange for a pardon for her previous misdoings.
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The result was The Paleface (1948) which features a cowardly hero known as "Painless" Peter Potter (Bob Hope), an inept dentist who often entertains the notion that he's a crack sharpshooter and accomplished Indian fighter. Fleeing the scene of a shootout, Potter travels west, accompanied by Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), an undercover ...
The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows". The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
The Paleface (1948) was a Comedy - Western Film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Robert L. Welch. SYNOPSIS. This hilarious send-up of gunslinging oaters has Hope's mail-order dentist encountering famed outlaw Calamity Jane, played by a sly, luscious Russell.
