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Road to Bali

USA 1952
produced by
Daniel Dare, Harry Tugend for Hope Enterprises, Bing Crosby Productions, Paramount
directed by Hal Walker
starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe, Ralph Moody, Leon Askin, Sue Casey, Leslie Charles, Jean Corbett, Judith London, Patti McKay, Betty Onge, Herman Cantor, Bernie Gozier, Carlyn Jones, Jan Kayne, Harry Cording, Roy Gordon, Bob Crosby, Richard Keene, Michael Ansara, Al Kikume, Bunny Lewbel, Jerry Lewis (cameo), Dean Martin (cameo), Jane Russell (cameo)
story by Harry Tugend, screenplay by Frank Butler, Hal Kanter, William Morrow, music by Johnny Burke, Joseph J.Lilley

Road to ..-series, Hope & Crosby

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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George (Bing Crosby) and Harold (Bob Hope) have to leave Melbourne, Australia in a hurry when they are lined up for not one but two shotgun weddings ... and before long, they find themselves hired by sinister Prince Ken Arok (Murvyn Vye) as deep-sea divers to retrieve a tresure that is guarded by a giant squid on an island paradise en route to Bali.

Once on the island, the two boys naturally fall for the same women, Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour), who knows that diving for the treasure would be their certain death and implores them not to, but George, figuring Harold would be competition for the Princess' attention, convinces Harold to go down anyhow ... and wouldn't you know it, Harold is able to retrieve the treasure and do so in one piece ... which is when Ken Arok shows his true colours: He wants the treasure first and foremost to overthrow the Princess, and has no intention whatsoever to pay George and Harold, who retrieved teh treasure for him - actually he'd rather feed them both and Lala to the sharks ...

Somehow, George, Harold and Lala get away on a boat and get washed ashore a neighbouring island ... where a benign priest (Ralph Moody) promises Lala to marry her to both Georg and Harold ... but the evil King (Leon Askin) of the island is in league with Ken Arok and wants Lala for himself - and to delete competition he marries George and Harold to each other.

However, as these films go, it all culminates in the eruption of the local volcano which only our heroes - George, Harold and Lala - survive. Lala has now to decide between the two men and she chooses - George. To comfort himself, Harold conjures up Jane Russell, but wouldn't you know it, she also prefers Harold ...

 

Road to Bali, the only film of the Road-series shot in colour, is quite an enjoyable send-up to the island girl films that were escapist staple back in the days - and Dorothy Lamour has been in quite a few of them, too. Of course, the script is less than excellent and may be using one or two stale island jokes too many, but Hope and Crosby once again make a great comedic duo and once again Dorothy Lamour proves to be the perfect catalyst for their kind of comedy. It's perfect fun, really.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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