Off Limits

Love the older Bob Hope films but not this one.

He stars with Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell in the military comedy. Both men love the same woman.

Hope plays a boxing coach tricked into working as a Military Policeman. He meets Mickey Rooney, and more importantly, his good-looking aunt. To get closer to her, Hope offers to train Mickey as a fighter.

Unfortunately, this is a tedious and not funny film. The fact that it made no sense wouldn't have bothered me if I had been laughing - I mean, Hope was what, 49, being drafted? Or how about short stuff Mickey as a lightweight champ.

This doesn't hold up the way other Hope movies do.