Off Limits (1953 film)

Off Limits

1953 Theatrical Poster
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Harry Tugend
Written by Hal Kanter (story and screenplay)
Jack Sher (story and screenplay)
Starring Bob Hope
Mickey Rooney
Marilyn Maxwell
Edited by Arthur P. Schmidt
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • February 19, 1953 (1953-02-19)
Running time
89 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $2.5 million (US)[1]

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.

Synopsis

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 its a case of stringing Tuttle along while trying to get close to his aunt. To further complicate Hogan's life there is a rulebook Military Police Officer who tries to squash the shenanigans.

Cast

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References

  1. 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954


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