A Global Affair (1964)

When a baby is abandoned at the United Nations, a United Nations official (Bob Hope) takes charge of the baby until the United Nations can assign a designated country to adopt the child. Since almost every nation is eager to claim the child as its own, a bevy of international beauties attempt to seduce him and influence his opinion. Directed by Jack Arnold (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON), the film comes across as a public relations vehicle for the United Nations. I'm not complaining, the U.N. does great things for international children as the movie repeatedly reminds us and its heart is in the right place. But as a Bob Hop comedy vehicle, it's middling at best. The laughs are there (when changing the baby's diaper, Hope has no baby powder so he uses powdered sugar) but there's just not enough of them. Among the international beauties: Yvonne De Carlo, Liselotte Pulver, Michele Mercier, Miiko Taka, Elga Andersen, Barbara Bouchet and Susan Hart. The rest of the cast includes Robert Sterling, Nehemiah Persoff, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jacques Bergerac, John McGiver and Reta Shaw.