Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

jhkp Bob Hope plays A. J. Niles, a best-selling author of steamy books about sex lives in foreign lands ("How The Finns Live"), who settles down in a typical California tract community in the San Fernando Valley (Paradise Village). Niles has been abroad for 14 years. He left in the postwar 1940's. He has to adjust not only to America, but to early-1960's American suburban life.So - how did this bachelor end up in Paradise? For starters, the government discovers he's failed to pay income tax for years (the fault of his business manager, who's also absconded with his earnings). They require Niles to return to the US, so his publisher (John McGiver), an investor in a community of tract homes in the San Fernando Valley, called Paradise Village, arranges for Niles to live there under an assumed name. The object: To research and write a new book, How The Americans Live.It's a clever premise, giving Hope an opportunity to react to all kinds of customs, mores, and personalities - something he's very good at. Lana Turner plays the other "bachelor" in Paradise, the unmarried manager of the tract. "Don't they harvest the crops around here?" Bob quips. She's charming and, at 40, still gorgeous. She's not particularly funny, but then, Bob's glamorous costars were rarely comedians. And there are other women around to handle that. Janis Paige is the wife of Turner's stuffy boss (Don Porter); she has a yen for Bob and is funny, goofy and sexy. Paula Prentiss is paired with Jim Hutton (their third MGM teaming). They play young marrieds with children, Niles' next door neighbors. They're both great. Bob and Paula have nice chemistry. His scenes with the couple's two boys are very funny. So are his interactions with some neighborhood kids, including one who calles herself "Mrs. McIntyre Reta Shaw plays a delightfully stuffy neighbor who has no idea Niles is Niles, and is trying to get his "smutty" books banned. Niles becomes a sort of sex/romance tutor for the wives, conducting seminars during the day about how to please their husbands. Some are not pleased at all. It comes to a head when the husbands begin to assume that Niles is a shameless "libertine", conducting affairs with their wives. And they bring him to court. Agnes Moorehead enters the picture at this point, as a gruff judge, providing some additional laughs.Overall, the humor is smart and cute. It's a classy, clever comedy, with a bit of romance. There are more chuckles than guffaws, but plenty of them. It's probably Bob Hope's best later comedy. Bachelor In Paradise is a delightful diversion I can gladly recommend.

Hitchcoc Other than Bob Hope's wisecracks (which aren't all that funny), this movie is a lost cause. It involves a writer of "Bachelor" books, forced to live in a suburban, fifties community because his accountant ran off with his fortune. He has come to study the natives and then write about them. In the process he falls in love with Lana Turner. The screenplay is insipid, the acting stiff and bloodless, there is utterly no charm. The best characters in the book are two little kids who only appear for about three minutes. This is the stuff that was put in the theaters in the sixties. It titillates but the censors had their bony fingers on the button at every turn. The result a tiresome, endless non-comedy that bores everyone. Watch the ridiculous courtroom scene at the end if you want an example of the worst of cinema.

sargebehr I saw this motion picture in 1961, and it stuck with me for a few reasons. I was raised in a tract neighborhood nearly identical to 'Paradise Village', so it's like 'going home'. Hope was never funnier along with Lana Turner, but Janis Paige was superb in her role as a 'seductress'. I'm told that Miss Turner had never been in a supermarket prior to the scenes of this picture...but she had so much fun after that, her daughter took her almost weekly to one. The music is spectacular, especially the Henry Mancini-penned theme at the beginning and end - it's the first piece of 'sophisticated scandalous' music I can remember hearing. Many shots of some great now-classic autos, as well(Dodge, Chrysler 300, etc.). Al in all, it's a 'dated' motion picture, but still funny and enjoyable to watch.

Ripshin This flick is sixties suburbia to pastel perfection - an "early Disneyland" middle-class wet dream.Frankly, I've never understood Bob Hope as a sex-comedy leading man, but his later films must have made money, or they wouldn't have kept churning them out. Lana Turner is coiffed to within an inch of her life, but she honestly looks OLDER than her forty years in 1961.Watch this for the "California coral" tract homes, the fab supermarket and the atomic drive-in we all wish still existed. However, don't expect anything more than the usual, lame Hope shtick.Of course, Agnes Moorehead is priceless in her cameo......if only she had played a larger role.