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Road to Zanzibar
USA 1941
produced by
Paul Jones for Paramount
directed by Victor Schertzinger
starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel, Eric Blore, Douglass Dumbrille, Iris Adrian, Lionel Royce, Buck Woods, Leigh Whipper, Ernest Whitman, Noble Johnson, Joan Marsh, Luis Alberni, Robert Middlemass, Al Bridge, Ken Carpenter, Leo Gorcey, & as a gorilla Charles Gemora
screenplay by Frank Butler, Don Hartman, based on a story by Don Hartman, Sy Bartlett
Road to ..-series, Hope & Crosby
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Bing Crosby & Bob Hope work as carnival shouter/promoter &
stuntman respectively, when one of their tricks - The human cannonball -
burns down a whole carnival. That takes them on an escape through all of
Africa where they try more & more crazy tricks to earn a living, but
in the end, they are caught by the police nevertheless & only kept
out of prison by a kind American, who them sells them a lost diamond
mine - problem with the lost mine is ... it is lost, meaning Hope
& Crosby have spent all their money on pretty much nothing. Things
don't get any better when Hope sells the mine again to some criminal
bigshot who has the necessary muscle to force them to take him to the
mine. Our 2 heroes escape - if only just - on a riverboat to some place
deep ion the jungle. There they are promptly tricked out of some money
by Una Merkel when she begs them to help her by buying her friend
Dorothy Lamour from some white slaver (who is of course in league with
Lamour & Merkel). The 2 ladies soon realize the have struck gold
with our 2 heroes & manage to have them pay for their safari to
Lamour's fiancé - of course under a false pretense though. Both Hope
& Crosby of course soon fall madly in love with Lamour, but after a
few jungle-shenanigans (you know the kind) they find out about the
girls' crooked plans & send them off - unfortunately, the whole
safari with them, leaving them rather losat in thew jungle. Of course,
the next native village isn't far, only this one is quite scary, being
only inhabited by skeletons. But our boys come up with a plan of
drumming for help, only to misspell their message, soon being
attacked by some more natives. These natives can't decide wether Hope
& Crosby are their gods or their food, so finally Hope has to
wrestle a gorilla to prove that he's a god ... but loses, & our
heroes almost end up as cannibal fodder, until they start entertaining
the crowds & can escape on merits of their entertainment value.
& in the end they even meet Dorothy Lamour - who ran away from her
fiancé because she's in love with Bing Crosby - & Una Merkel again. Neat
jungle comedy that works not so much because of the gags but because of
its likeable leading duo, that once more shows great chemistry - Dorothy
Lamour, who works great with them as well, is here strictly reduced to a
supporting role. Second of Hope's, Crosby's & Lamour's Road-movies,
& while certainly not bad (none of the Road-movies really
is), it's not one of the better entries in the series though.
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