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Summary: THE ROAD MOST TRAVELED
Review: A top moneymaker in 1943, with an Oscar-nominated screenplay, ROAD TO MOROCCO is perhaps the most satisfying of the series in which the public loved from 1940-1962. Here, Hope and Crosby often step out of character to comment on the fictional situation and the processes of film communication. Hope and Crosby sing to the camera, and the lyrics include "I'll lay you eight to five we meet Dorothy Lamour" and "For any villians we may meet we haven't any fears - Paramount will protect us 'cause we're signed for five more years". Other illusion-breaking instances are those which refer to the earlier "Road" films. At one point, Hope and Crosby attempt the "pattycake" routine they had used in ROAD TO SINGAPORE and ROAD TO ZANZIBAR to get the best of their adversaries; but when it fails to work in this case, Crosby comments "Yessir Junior, that thing sure got around" After they escape from Kassim and are onboard a ship bound for America, Lamour remarks to Crosby, "I get the strangest feeling we've been through all this before" to which Crosby replies "I trapped you again." The film lapses into total artificiality at the end, when they are stranded on a life raft. Here, Hope goes into an overdramatic "mad" scene and when Crosby informs him that the New York skyline is in the background, Hope remarks, "You had to open your big mouth and ruin the only good scene I have in the picture". "I might have won an Academy Award". The subsequent ROAD pictures were even more blantantly artificial. Only in ROAD TO UTOPIA did Hope winover Lamour. In general, Hope's contributions to film comedy have too long been disregarded. As a stand-up comedian, he is a show business institution, and his timing and delivery have often been acknowledged as an influence on other such performers - most notably Johnny Carson. Crosby's presence provides an added dimension to the series. His casual underplaying is the perfect counerpoint to Hope's rapid fire gag lines. The bantering between the two obviously owed much to their long personal friendship; it always seems spontaneous and unrehearsed.
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Summary: a lot of fun
Review: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are a great comedy team in this movie
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Summary: this is a good movie
Review: don't listen to them its good!! I'm a woman and I am not offended by it. People are too sensitive these days!!
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Summary: " Moonlight Becomes You"
Review: Good songs and better bits are in this "Road" entry in the series."Where we,re going, why we,re going we are not so sure.....I lay you 8 to 5 that we,ll meet Dorothy Lamour" Ad libs and hi jinx galore..with Bing selling Bob to pay for lunch. Anthony Quinn along for the ride of course..before he started acting. ( what a terrific job he did at that)
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Summary: The Best
Review: I have seen all of the Road to's and I think this is the best on yet.I can watch it over a million times and still think that they are funny. They are the best team ever.They have many more great songs in this movie like..... "moonlight becomes you"A hole in my shoe" and my personal favorite "Were of on the Road to Morocco"I think the best scene is when Bing and Bob are in the desert, and they see a Dorthy Lamour mirage, and all three of them sing "moonlight becomes you" and they all exchange vocies. It is a utterly slap-happy picture.I advise anyone who like Bing and Bob to buy this movie! not to rent because you can't ever see it enough!
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Summary: THIRD IN THE SERIES AND ONE OF THE BEST
Review: I keep saying with each Road movie review that it was one of the best and with the exception of the final "Road to Hong Kong" they all were!!!
The PLOT: When the ocean liner carrying Jeff (crosby)and Orville (Hope)is sunk, they find themselves washed up and on the way to Morocco. In pay for food Jeff sells Orville to a man only to find that Orville has been sold on to Princess Shalmar (Lamour) and is now to marry her. However the princess is only marrying Orville as her first wed is cursed to die within a week - leaving her free to marry Mullay Kassim (Anthony Quinn).
What this film must have done for wartime morale is amazing. It remains as fresh as ever and anything else featuring Crosby, Hope and Lamour should not be passed over. It was certainly an unexpected gem of a surprise, and probably one of the few movies where the same jokes can get away with working twice.
A pleasure to see three old pros in action and to throw in the menacing Anthony Quinn as a foil to the boys is perfect. I love the music in every Road picture and this one is well above par for the course. What a joy to sit down to watch!
A bit of trivia...The scene where the camel spits in Orville's face wasn't planned. The camel did it of its own accord while the cameras were rolling, and Hope's recoil and Bing Crosby's reaction were so funny that it was left in the final cut of the film. Awesome!
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Summary: Filled with pleasant tunes!
Review: I think this is the funniest Road Picture by Bing and Bob(though I haven't seen Rio and Hong Kong yet). Especially, there are many impressive songs such as Moonlight Becomes You, Ain't Got A Dime To My Name. Watching this comedy, you will recognize Bing and Bob is a perfect couple of comedy!
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Summary: Another Fun Romp With The Boys
Review: I've never been a big Anthony Quinn fan for some reason, and, for me, his presence in Singapore and here, in Morocco, hampers the fun a bit.
Another fun-to-watch rollicking beginning ... and then the pace slows down when they hook up with Dorothy Lamour ... and make the rounds in the palace.
Both Bing and Bob are in good form. Bing looks like he dropped a few pounds for the part, and he has a nice little song and dance ("Ho Hum"). Bob is his usual zany self ... especially when he learns Bing has sold him for $200. And having Bob act like an idiot so they can get free food ("Such ones are sacred to us") is a classic bit.
It seems like the farther the movie gets away from Bing and Bob, the duller it gets ... and there's a lull here at about the three-quarter mark.
But a good road picture ... with plenty of laughs.
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Summary: Lighten up, pal.
Review: Jeez, I don't know if you can see the review I'm looking at, but he gave this two stars. If you look at his history, the "disgruntled Dominican" gave "Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town" five stars. I think that's all you need to know. This is a light, funny entertaining film that holds up well unless you're a disgruntled Dominican buckethead.
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Summary: An outrageously original and sensationally surreal comedy!
Review: The classic 1942 comedy "Road to Moroco", the 3rd in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. This is my favourite- great songs and zany comedy. Decades before Monty Python, the top-of-their-tree talents combined here created an outrageously original and sensationally surreal comedy! Crosby and Hope were two of the biggest box-office draws at the time, and they enjoy themselves immensely in "Morocco", with in-jokes aplenty (they even make fun of the Road series itself!) and double-and-triple crosses in abundance, as they try to get themselves out of trouble and into romance, Bing the smooth, crooning charmer and Bob the cowardly (but loveable) wanna-be. Dottie is beautiful as ever, as are the sets and the support cast includes a menacing Anthony Quinn. The Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Huesen score includes "Road to Morocco" (Bob and Bing on a camel- "Where we're goin', why we're goin', how can we be sure? I'll lay you eight-to-five that we meet Dorothy Lamour!"); "Ho Hum" and "Moonlight Becomes You" (a classic Bing number, which he solos and reprises with Hope and Lamour). They don't make `em like this anymore!
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