8 ON THE LAM was, I think, the first Bob Hope movie I taped off of one of the movie channels back when we got one of those small, digital dishes, after a three year or so drought without broadcast television. (Things sure changed in those scant three years, good movies like this had become frighteningly hard to find on the tube.) Hope plays a bank employee with a house full of kids he can barely afford. One day he discovers a money clip filled with cash. After nobody has claimed it for an acceptable time, he begins to spend the wad on his family. Unfortunately, it's right at this time that someone frames him for skimming from the bank! The family is soon on the run, and the fun takes off! Shirley Eaton is Bob's girlfriend, Phyllis Diller his house-keeper (probably Diller's funniest work is found in this picture), and Johnathan Winters is the befuddled cop trying to track Bob down. Jill St. John also stops by to play the girl who knows who's really responsible for the missing bank notes. A swell picture, tons of fun. Might make a fun double bill with the Hope/Frankie Avalon/Tuesday Weld vehicle I'LL TAKE SWEDEN.
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