YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

morris Hammond I watch this every time it's on cable, mainly because it is a graphic memento of "Camelot" - a time in America of sheer optimism and middle class power. This movie revels in the 60s suburban life style and the fact even the middle class was shrugging off stuffy Victorian sexuality. But within a setting of Bob Hope's dry humor, lots of hot 60s women, the BIG cars, the ranch style canyon subdivision houses - and the consumptive 60s lifestyle. Gotta love it on nostalgia value alone but as one of the better Hope 60s comedies, peppered with his slick double entendre one-liners bounced off a bevy of Hollywood hotties, it's a winner as well.

Hitchcoc Other than Bob Hope's wisecracks (which aren't all that funny), this movie is a lost cause. It involves a writer of "Bachelor" books, forced to live in a suburban, fifties community because his accountant ran off with his fortune. He has come to study the natives and then write about them. In the process he falls in love with Lana Turner. The screenplay is insipid, the acting stiff and bloodless, there is utterly no charm. The best characters in the book are two little kids who only appear for about three minutes. This is the stuff that was put in the theaters in the sixties. It titillates but the censors had their bony fingers on the button at every turn. The result a tiresome, endless non-comedy that bores everyone. Watch the ridiculous courtroom scene at the end if you want an example of the worst of cinema.

JLRMovieReviews Bob Hope, a novelist whose main subject is the bachelor's life and how it varies from country to country and the named country's lifestyles, is forced to stay in America to pay his debt to the IRS because his accountant ran off with his money and never filed a tax return for him. His agent places in a residential subdivision to show how the Americans live. Enter Paradise Village and Lana Turner.She leases him her place to live month by month, surrounded by families, whose housewives are home alone with crying babies and who are yearning for change and culture, and here he shows up to help them out of their doldrums. But then with all these fancy ideas he's giving their wives, the husbands think the worst of him and things go from bad to crazy.Being a Lana Turner fan, I might be more gracious in rating this Hope comedy. It certainly is not his best material, but as other reviewers have said, it has its rewards. Namely Janis Paige, who nicely fills out a dress and the believable charm and chemistry between Lana and Bob.Lana loved comedy and enjoyed breaking out and making this film. It shows in the later part of the film, as she loosens up.Its main weakness are one-liners that are more rude than funny and therefore fall flat. But, that's mainly near the beginning of the film. And, get this: this is based on a story by Vera Caspary, who wrote the classic Laura (the novel, of course.) Costarring Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Don Porter, Reta Shaw, Agnes Moorehead, and Virginia Grey (in one of her five appearances in a film with Lana), this is fun, easygoing film that should be enjoyed for what it is, a good time with one of America's favorite funny men, Bob Hope.

blanche-2 Bob Hope is a "Bachelor in Paradise" in this 1961 film also starring Lana Turner, Don Porter, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Janis Paige and Virginia Grey. Hope plays an author, A.J. Niles, whose specialty is the sexual practices of countries. When the IRS forbids him to leave the country, it's suggested that he concentrate on the U.S. He's sent to a development in California called Paradise and set up in a rental home. It's actually the home of one of the managers of the development, Rosemary Howard (Turner), and she lives elsewhere for the time being. Keeping his identity a secret, Adam, as he is called, holds seminars and discussion groups for the women of Paradise on how to keep their marriages fresh. Some of his advice works; some doesn't. Meanwhile, he's being pursued by the sexy but married Dolores Jynson, and he himself is after the beautiful Rosemary.This seems to be a very popular film with viewers who post here. I didn't make all the connections with it that some did as I don't come from this kind of background, but I can well appreciate how it would resonate if I had. It's a pleasant enough film, and it is a lot of fun to see all of the '60s furnishings, colors and styles of hair and dress and to realize how mores have changed with the years. The cast is very good (and very '60s) as well. People probably thought Prentiss and Hutton were married as they were paired together so often due to Prentiss' above average height, and it's always great to see Janis Paige and Virginia Grey.My favorite Bob Hope era is that of the 1940s, where he had great material well suited to him. His youthfulness and the cowardly character he played, along with the situations he got into always made his films sparkle. And what leading ladies - Madeline Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, etc. Here he is teamed with glamorous Lana Turner who looks very beautiful in the film and has the right coolness and sophistication for the part. As for Hope, at the age of 58, he doesn't have that boyish, enthusiastic, naive quality of the old days, and the jokes he's delivering are pretty stale.Unlike "The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell," "Bachelor in Paradise" is not a dud. Though it's dated, that's part of the fun, and it has some genuinely funny moments, a lively cast and that American icon, Bob Hope. You can love him or hate him, but you can't deny he was a remarkable entertainer to many generations.