Ronnie Jackson est condamné à mort et sur le point d'être exécuté. En flashback, il va raconter son histoire : photographe rêvant d'être détective, il est pris pour tel, suite à un quiproquo, et se retrouve embarqué par une femme fatale dans une histoire qui le mènera à sa perte...
Agent d'assurances naïf, Milford Farnsworth rapporte à sa société un contrat d'assurance-vie de 100 000 dollars, décroché auprès d'un certain Jesse James. Apprenant que la vie de son célèbre client ne tient qu'à une balle, Milford est envoyé dans l’Ouest à la poursuite du bandit afin de récupérer son contrat. Malheureusement, le remboursement ne va pas se passer comme prévu.
Le fils Potter vient chercher dans l'ouest le trésor que son père lui a légué.
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot.
La capitaine Vinka Kovelenko fuit la Russie, mais pas pour des raisons politiques. Elle refuse la position de la femme dans le régime soviétique. Arrivée à Londres, elle rencontre le capitaine Chuck Lockwood qui doit lui montrer les bons côtés du capitalisme. Elle reste communiste dans l'âme, mais tombe amoureuse de l'officier anglais. Mais le KGB n'aime pas l'idée qu'un officier russe court les rues londoniennes.
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.
Bob Hope returns to his stage role in this updated theatrical TV presentation of the musical
The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys. Freddie, who's been a "boy scout" too long, has designs on gorgeous Duchess Alexandria. The boys, far better organized than Freddie, are determined to save him from himself. But who will save Freddie from being the killer's next victim?
Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.
For 11 Presidents, Bob Hope was a golfing buddy, national jester and constant guest at the White House. This special includes personal recollections about Bob from the Clintons, the Bushs, the Fords, and David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Guests Tony Danza, Don Johnson, Naomi Judd, Ann-Margret and Tom Selleck also appear on what was to become Bob Hope's final television special.
Three years after taping his previous show in the Persian Gulf, Bob Hope returns to the front line to put on another USO Christmas extravaganza, this time in Saudi Arabia for US Troops preparing with other nations to expel Iraq's 1990 invasion and attempted annexation of Kuwait.
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Hope's annual Christmas show, with songs, skits, and comedy routines.
A posthumous tribute to comedy legend Lucille Ball by her frequent co-star Bob Hope features clips from many of their sketches and tributes from George Burns, Danny Thomas, Kirk Cameron, and Betty White.