Way Out West is a 1937 Western Comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However, they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon singer wife Lola.  

The Paleface is a 1948 Western Comedy starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell that was one of the top five box office hits of that year. Bob Hope plays a cowardly hero known as “Painless” Peter Potter, an inept dentist who often entertains the notion that he’s a crack sharpshooter and accomplished Indian fighter. Fleeing the scene of a shootout, Potter travels west, accompanied by Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), an undercover government agent who hoodwinks him into marrying her.

This movie was Bob Hope’s first color feature and his highest-grossing picture to date and teamed him for the first time with Jane Russell, who proved to be the perfect foil for Hope – sarcastic, tough and humorless. Their on-screen chemistry was so good together that Paramount re-teamed them for a sequel, Son of Paleface (1952).

Chief Curator Andrew Patrick Nelson will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion with the audience.

Way Out West

Rating: G

Length: 1h 6m

The Paleface

Rating: PG

Length: 1h 31m

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