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Where There's Life
Cover from VHS release
Directed bySidney Lanfield
Written byAllen Boretz (screenplay)
Melville Shavelson (story and screenplay)
Produced byPaul Jones
StarringBob Hope
Signe Hasso
William Bendix
George Coulouris
CinematographyCharles Lang
Edited byArchie Marshek
Music byCharles Bradshaw (uncredited)
Nathan Van Cleave (uncredited)
Victor Young (uncredited)
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 21, 1947 (1947-11-21)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3 million (US rentals)[1]

Where There's Life is a 1947 American thriller comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield.[2][3] The film's title derives from a line in Don Quixote ("Where there's life, there's hope") as a play on the name of its star, Bob Hope. Also in the cast are Signe Hasso, William Bendix, and George Coulouris.

Premise

Hope plays an American radio announcer named Michael Valentine who finds out he is the new king of "Barovia", although a secret society called the Mordia, which believes it has assassinated Valentine's father, King Hubertus II, has other ideas.

Cast

Notes

  1. ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
  2. ^ Variety film review; October 8, 1947, page 8.
  3. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; October 11, 1947, page 162.