Visit to a small planet 1960 jerry lewis full length comedy movie duration. News spreads across the world over its destruction. National catholic register the third of the wellknown road movies starring bing crosby, bob hope, and dorothy lamour is perhaps the best. Bob hope, bing crosby, and dorothy lamour star in this road to. The picture on all seven blurays is sharper than the old dvds, but a dramatic improvement only in the case of road to bali 6, the only color film in the series. Road to morocco represents the point at which the roadmovie formula had hit. Road to morocco aka were off on the road to morocco title song from the film road to morocco 1942 lyrics. The desert of morocco is actually the imperial sand dunes in buttercup valley. Morocco is actually a pretty popular place to shoot moviesso much so that a handful of movie studios popped up outside of marrakech to handle the demand. The desert of morocco is actually the imperial sand dunes in buttercup valley, south of i8, just to the west of yuma, way down in southern california toward the arizona border.
The third of the bob hopebing crosbydorothy lamour road to. Road to morocco 1942 stream and watch online moviefone. Survivors of a mediterranean shipwreck, stowaways jeff crosby and orville hope paddle to a north african shore and hitch a camel ride across the desert to morocco. Road to morocco 1942 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The film, which was written by frank butler and don hartman and directed by david butler for paramount pictures, is the third of the road to films. Jeff and turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the mediterranean, are cast away on a desert shore and hop a convenient camel to an arabian nights city where turkey soon finds himself sold as a luscious princess shalmar of karameesh. Explosion at sea and a brief newscast montage surveying 1942 global politics. Ive never taken a trip with bing and bob, though the influences of their seven collaborations together in the series had longstanding ramifications for the rest of hollywood. Movie november 11, 1942, road to morocco, the third title in the bob hope tribute collection from universal that included some of the other road movies such as road to singapore, road to zanzibar and road to utopia.
Like websters dictionary, bob hope, bing crosby and dorothy lamour are moroccobound in the third rollicking entry in their popular series of road comedies. An oscar was bestowed upon johnny burke and jimmy van heusens ballad moonlight becomes you. It was that same old formula, too, but that isnt a bad thing in the case of this movie. Stowaways jeff bing crosby and orville bob hope end up desperate and shipwrecked on the north african coast, where they shanghai a camel and journey across the desert to morocco. Rent road to morocco 1942 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Hope and crosby were already consummate entertainers on. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Much of the comedy is slapstick, but this is a movie thats not afraid to say its just a movie, dont take it seriously.
Stowaways jeff bing crosby and orville bob hope end up desperate and shipwrecked on the north african coast, where they shanghai a. Generally regarded as the best of the road pictures, road to morocco is as fresh and funny today as it was back in 1942. You can tell bing and bob had a blast filming road to morocco. Paramount pictures released road to morocco to theaters on april 8, 1942. We had a chance to visit atlas studios in ouarzazate, where famous films like gladiator, kingdom of heaven, babel, lawrence of arabia, game of.
An oscar nominee for best original screenplay, road to morocco is highlighted by bings rendition of one of his bestloved songs, the unforgettable moonlight becomes you. Lighthearted and nonsensical, sophisticated but not overplotted, road to morocco represents the point at which the roadmovie formula had hit its stride but hadnt yet descended into selfparody. Road to morocco 1942 movie clip two unidentified stowaways. The movie is entertaining and a good place to escape with a bowl of popcorn. Yes, the plot is paper thin, but the comedy and selfdeprecating humor is there. Read the the road to morocco movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on movies. Searching for his partner after an attack of conscience, jeff.
The third of the wellknown road movies starring bing crosby, bob hope, and. All seven films are excellent, but the first four are funniest, especially road to morocco 3 and road to utopia 4. The focus of the plot allows a safe environment for hope and crosby to do their double act within. Starving vagabond jeff bing crosby sells best friend orville bob hope into slavery in a moroccan marketplace to buy food.
Road to morocco 1942 when kino lorber made plans to release several of the bing crosbybob hope road to movies i jumped at the opportunity. Released november 11th, 1942, road to morocco stars bing crosby, bob hope, dorothy lamour, anthony quinn the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 23 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Watch road to morocco movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. For some fast cash, jeff sells orville into slavery. Road to morocco 1942 bob hope, bing crosby, and dorothy lamour star in this road to.
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an arabian nights city, where they compete for the luscious princess shalmar. Funny movie quotes from road to morocco best clean funny. Road to morocco has survived over the years as not only the best of the road to franchise, but as one of the greatest american comedies of hollywoods golden age. Bob and bing are off on the road to morocco, an event they celebrate in song.
Road to morocco, american screwball comedy film, released in 1942, that was the third and most acclaimed of the road movies featuring bob hope, bing crosby, and dorothy lamour jeff peters played by crosby and orville turkey jackson hope accidently blow up the ship they have stowed away on and are shipwrecked on the coast of africa. You watch a film like this and realize just how much has changed in the moviemaking industry since the days of bing and bob, but you also realize that a film. The road pictures continue with this third outing from 1942 called road. Bing and bob find themselves moroccobound like websters dictionary, caught in an elaborately fakedup world of harems, palm trees, and other arabian nights bricabrac. Road to morocco is a 1942 american comedy film starring bing crosby, bob hope and dorothy lamour, and featuring anthony quinn and dona drake. Road to morocco begins with the explosion of a freighter out at sea. Considered by many to be the best of the road pictures. In order to buy food, jeff sells orville into slavery but orville. Road to morocco, number three in the series of breezy comedies teaming bing crosby and bob hope, may be the funniest of the bunch. Road to morocco passed 1h 22min adventure, comedy, family 8 april 1943 mexico two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an arabian nights city, where they compete for the luscious princess shalmar. Bing crosby the road to morocco lyrics metrolyrics.
Watch road to morocco full movie in hd visit two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an arabian nights city, whe. Kino has done full justice to the movie by providing a great transfer as well as an informative commentary track and legacy special features from previous releases of the. After teaming up for their first film together road to singapore 1940 and parlaying that success into a sequel, road to zanzibar. His owner turns out to be the luscious princess shalmar dorothy lamour, who announces plans to wed orville. Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways. Rent road to morocco 1942 starring bing crosby and bob hope on dvd and bluray.
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