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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

girvanpaterson Robert Cummings was a handsome movie star of the late 1930's through to the early 50's appearing in all sorts of roles, with some of the screens biggest female co-stars, and in some big films like 'Kings Row', 'Dial M For Murder', 'The Lost Moment' etc. He was one of the first big screen stars to go into television, and finally became a 'Superstar' of that medium, his forte was always comedy, and he could play it with the best of them. Billing himself as just Bob Cummings from 'The Bob Cummings Show' on, as the aforementioned reviews say, it was a trailblazer in many ways for it's time, and a pity to date, it's never been released officially as a series on DVD. To me, he was even funnier in his very first series, 'My Hero' where he played a more 'bumbling' character, which he could do with great finesse, I just wish there was someone as good at playing comedy today!

inkboy1 i loved the interplay between bob and dwayne hickman (whom i loved as doby gillis, with the great frank faylen; 'someday i'm gonna kill that boy.' bob was a very, very funny guy, and hickman had a great jack benny-like deadpan that made me laugh, and an outburst he stole from cummings, i think. his brother was a go-to longtime natural that put the glue in many a movie, many of them great. i remember an episode with charles coburn, with whom bob acted in 'the devil and miss jones' the previous decade: bob was playing it big -- coburn was supposed to be playing the father of some young thing bob was pursuing, and bob finished the lines, exasperated, with something like, 'you're the girl's father!' and coburn replied, 'no i'm not; i'm charles coburn.' it shattered the 'fourth wall' in a very funny way.

superuser1400 I was seeing what was on channel 31 melbourne Australia (similar to what Americans call an "independent station") , and i was surprised to see that they re-run classic shows. i was Curious, so i decided to start watching them. i have just finished watching "love that bob", and i must say it's one of the best shows i have ever seen. I've always wanted to see more 50's television shows, which are rarely shown on tv1 (similar to "TV land",we don't get "tv land" in Australia) or fox classics (both of which show too many 90's shows), and I'm glad i found out that channel 31 has classic shows. I found this show to be very funny, much better than the crap on TV today. i wish they would bring back more classic shows, but as channel 31 is not a re-run channel (it mostly shows local programming, which i should watch more of too), i might as well hope that tv1 or fox classics start to show more 50's shows.8 out of 10

jeffhill1 The "Bob Commings Show" (retitled for syndication, "Love That Bob") had eroticism, patriotism, and family values. The character of Bob Collins was a World War II veteran who was living with and supporting his war-widowed sister and her college student son, Chuck. Bob Collins was both a shameless, one could say addicted, womanizer, and an admirable role model and mentor for his nephew Chuck, played by Dwayne Hickman. "The Bob Cummings Show" was ahead of its time, representative of its time, and influential on its time. It was especially influential on a lot of subsequent shows. "The Dobbie Gillis Show", for instance was almost a direct rip-off of the "Bob Cummings Show" with Dwayne Hickman doing a recreation of his Chuck character with a lot of Bob Collins mixed in. In the "Bob Cummings Show" Dwayne Hickman as Chuck would try to date one of Uncle Bob's models, such as the French bombshell Collette duBois, played by Debra Paget's sister, Lisa Gaye. Collette would consult Bob, asking him about the idea of accepting a date with college student Chuck, "Don't you think it would be like you Americans say, 'stealing the bed?'. " A bit stunned at the expression, Bob would do one of his "takes" and then gasp, "You mean 'robbing the cradle?'" In "Dobbie Gillis" Dwayne Hickman got an awful lot of mileage out of using the same Bob Commings type gasp to yell, "That's Dobbie! With a B!" every time some character called him "Dopie." And Hickman as Dobbie was forever doing a take and responding with some gasp in response to some remark made by either Maynard G. Krebs or Zelda. Zelda, of course, was a rip-off of the Shultzy character on the "Bob Commings Show." Part of the charm of the Commings series was in its predictability of situation and the way the characters played off of one another. College student Chuck would periodically stop by Uncle Bob's photo studio, become ga-ga at the string of gorgeous models parading in and out of the studio in various stages of undress, and stutter, "Ah, ah, Uncle Bob, I feel guilty using your money to go to college. I think it is time I learned a trade. Like, ah, photography." To this, Uncle Bob would chuckle and respond, "No, Chuck, you need to get an education so that you don't end up a tradesman like your uncle. You continue in school and become a doctor." Whether he realizes it or not, I think the American who most of all refined and capitalized on the "take" and on characters playing off one another as influenced by the Commings show was Johnny Carson who captivated the American night audience for 25 years with jokes, takes, and character banter which to me, all seemed to originate on "The Bob Cummings Show."