Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! * (1966, Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller) – Classic Movie Review 10,349

Director George Marshall’s 1966 comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! stars Bob Hope, who struggles with a hopeless script about a motor-mouthed small-town estate agent, Tom Meade, who Gets a Wrong Number and becomes mixed up with a seductive visiting sex-bomb movie star Didi (Elke Sommer).

She is fleeing from her film-director bloke, Pepe Pepponi (Cesare Danova). The farce picks up as Hope has to keep Teutonic temptress Sommer away from his jealous wife Martha (Marjorie Lord). Phyllis Diller provides some truly funny moments as the maid, Lily, but the naff, unfunny dialogue mostly defeats even the great funny man Hope. Oh boy!

Also in the cast are Benny Baker, Kelly Thordsen, Terry Burnham, Joyce Jameson, Harry von Zell, Kevin Burchett, Keith Taylor and John Todd Roberts.

Phyllis Diller: 1917-2012.

Elke Sommer was born on November 5, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. She was paid £30,000 for Carry on Behind (1975), the highest ever Carry On salary along with Phil Silvers. Essential series star Kenneth Williams only got a sixth of her pay, £5,000.

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is directed by George Marshall, runs 99 minutes, is made by Edward Small Productions [Admiral Productions], is released by United Artists, is written by Burt Styler, Albert E Lewin and George Kennett, based on a story by George Beck, is shot in DeLuxe color by Lionel Lindon, is produced by Edward Small and George Beck, is scored by Richard LaSalle, and designed by Frank Sylos, with music and lyrics by By Dunham.

It is shot at Producers Studios, 5330 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, and at Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, California.

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