Off Limits is a 1953 comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. Hope plays a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted. The picture was written by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher, and was released in the UK as Military Policemen, as the characters played by Hope and Rooney join the military police.
Off Limits | |
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Directed by | George Marshall |
Written by | Hal Kanter (story and screenplay) Jack Sher (story and screenplay) |
Produced by | Harry Tugend |
Starring | Bob Hope Mickey Rooney Marilyn Maxwell |
Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
Music by | Van Cleave |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.5 million (US)[1] |
Wally Hogan (Hope) has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley (Stanley Clements), a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. Life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn, however, when Bullet gets drafted. Hogan's gangster partners persuade him to enlist and keep an eye on the fighter, who is subsequently declared psychologically unfit for the Army. Enter Herbert Tuttle (Mickey Rooney), a draftee eager to have Hogan turn him into a fighter. Hogan reluctantly agrees only after he discovers Tuttle's aunt is the beautiful singer (Marilyn Maxwell) at a nightclub. From then on it is a case of stringing Tuttle along while trying to get close to his aunt. To further complicate Hogan's life there is a military policeman who tries to squash the shenanigans.
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