I'll Take Sweden

It was directed by Frederick de Cordova, and stars Bob Hope, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld.

Single father Bob Holcomb, a widower, is unhappy with the guitar-playing boy Kenny his daughter JoJo chooses as a husband-to-be.

An executive with an oil company, Bob accepts a transfer to the firm's Stockholm branch and he takes JoJo along, hoping it will distract her.

Bob, having met an attractive interior designer, Karin, decides to take her away for a romantic weekend at a mountain resort.

On a voyage home, the ship's captain performs a double wedding ceremony that turns out to be invalid due to a navigation error.

[7] Billie Dove visited the set and Bob Hope offered her a role too but the former star declined.

[8] Howard Thompson of The New York Times loathed the film: "The picture is an altogether asinine little romp .

Instead, we get a cringey “silent majority” style late period Hope movie, which never feels as though it takes place in Sweden.

Avalon’s performance is utterly fine, completely professional – it’s not his fault that the film isn’t good.