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Casanova's Big Night Overview:

Casanova's Big Night (1954) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Paul Jones.

SYNOPSIS

Bob Hope in tights as a lowly tailor impersonating the renowned Latin lover, Casanova, while wooing the royal girl of his dreams whose virtue he's meant to be testing. Plush production, but Fontaine looks baffled by the buffoonery.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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Classic Films in Focus: CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT (1954)

By Jennifer Garlen on Aug 28, 2012 From Virtual Virago

You'd think a star-studded costume comedy like Casanova's Big Night (1954) would have everything it needed to be a huge success, but it never quite comes together. Perhaps it's Bob Hope's awkward brand of humor that doesn't quite suit the material, or the embarrassment of seeing heavyweight characte... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT (1954)

By Jennifer Garlen on Aug 28, 2012 From Virtual Virago

You'd think a star-studded costume comedy like Casanova's Big Night (1954) would have everything it needed to be a huge success, but it never quite comes together. Perhaps it's Bob Hope's awkward brand of humor that doesn't quite suit the material, or the embarrassment of seeing heavyweight characte... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT (1954)

By Jennifer Garlen on Aug 28, 2012 From Virtual Virago

You'd think a star-studded costume comedy like Casanova's Big Night (1954) would have everything it needed to be a huge success, but it never quite comes together. Perhaps it's Bob Hope's awkward brand of humor that doesn't quite suit the material, or the embarrassment of seeing heavyweight characte... Read full article

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Casanova's Big Night Quotes:

Lucio: [Whispering so that others at the table don't here] Don't forget yourself!
Lucio: [Carelessly loud] The wine's free, and I'm thirsty!
Lucio: [Whispering in his ear again] Mind your manners!
Pippo Popolino: Please stop nibbling on my ear. Don't let this beauty mark fool you too!
Pippo Popolino: [To Maggioni] Oh, please spare my miserable life! I'll work off the debt! I'll make more wine for you. I've got big feet! What grapes I can't trample on, I'll sit on!
Pippo Popolino: This is Lucio, my food taster.
Foressi: Your food taster?
Pippo Popolino: Yes, and you can't get a good food taster these days. The slightest hint of poison and they quit!
Francesca Bruni: [After laughter] Lucio is my cousin's ninth food taster!
Pippo Popolino: Tenth - counting Mother!
Francesca Bruni: I am his first cousin.
Pippo Popolino: First by a mile!
Pippo Popolino: Don't be frightened, Francesca. I'm scared enough for all of us.
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Casanova's Big Night Fact
Vincent Price lost credit for his performance as the real Casanova when he was caught up in the McCarthy-era "Red Scare" hysteria that swept the US in the 1950s.
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