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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! [Blu-ray]
(George Marshall, 1966)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Edward Small Productions Video: Olive Films
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:39:09.902 Disc Size: 24,307,343,023 bytes Feature Size: 24,098,672,640 bytes Video Bitrate: 28.80 Mbps Chapters: 9 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: January 24th, 2017
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 1866 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1866 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: • English, None
Extras: • None
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Description:
"Bob Hope (I'll Take Sweden) + Phyllis Diller (Eight
on the Lam) = madcap mayhem in the delightful comic romp
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, co-starring Elke Sommer (A
Shot in the Dark). The wrong number of the title turns
out to be that of Hollywood bombshell Didi (Sommer) and the
lucky caller is real estate agent Tom Meade (Hope). In need
of a quick fix for slumping sales, Meade sees Didi's
celebrity status as a way of boosting interest in a cabin
property by offering her the charming getaway as a place
where she can hide from the Hollywood moguls and flacks hot
on her trail. But wires aren t the the only thing crossed
when Meade s acid-tongued housekeeper, Lily (Diller),
suspecting that he s having an affair, flies into spy mode
to protect Meade s loving wife Martha (Marjorie Lord, TV's
Make Room for Daddy).
The Film: A series of madcap events occurs when married real estate agent Tom Meade (Bob Hope) mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi (Elke Sommer) at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bombshell, takes up Meade's offer to hide away at his backwoods cabin. Meade, with the help of his housekeeper (Phyllis Diller), goes to absurd lengths to help the actress evade discovery by both the public and his suspicious wife (Marjorie Lord.) Excerpt from MRQE located HEREBoy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! marked the first of three film collaborations for Hope and comedienne Phyllis Diller, cast as the acerbic housekeeper of Hope's scheming real estate developer. Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1917, Diller had aspired to the life of a comic after hearing Hope on the radio. Hope was a long-time admirer and supporter of Diller's trademark frazzled housewife act (Diller was at the time a newly-divorced single mother of five children), which she perfected in clubs and on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Dubbed by columnists "the female Bob Hope," Diller became a frequent guest on Hope's TV specials for NBC. A close friend of both Hope and his wife Dolores, Diller modeled the mordant, unpredictable domestics she played for Hope after his real life housekeeper, Eileen Taylor. In her 2006 memoirs, Diller suggested there was more than mutual respect to their professional relationship: "Bob was mad about me and I was nuts about him; yet nothing ever happened between us. I knew a relationship was an impossibility. Then again, I also had the theory that I reminded him of his mother. She sang and played the piano, and when I saw a picture of her I thought we resembled one another." Excerpt from TCM located HERE
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! arrives on Blu-ray from Olive Films. This is only single-layered but has a supportive bitrate. Some colors are impressive but there isn't a lot of depth or dynamic HD-related impressions in the visuals. I see a few speckles but overall it is quite clean. The Blu-ray probably improved the presentation over an SD rendering but it doesn't make the jokes any funnier.
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Audio :Olive use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track at 1866 kbps (24-bit) in the original English language. There aren't many effects in the film - but the bouncy score from 'By' Dunham (Seven Men from Now) and Richard LaSalle (The Night the Bridge Fell Down, Twice-Told Tales, Ambush Bay) keeps the proceedings light. It all sounds fine with clear consistent dialogue and some snappy comedic effects. There are optional English subtitles offered and my Oppo has identified it as being a region 'A'-locked.
Extras : No supplements - not even a trailer which is the bare-bones route that Olive are going with the majority of their releases.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze January 22nd, 2017
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