Availability: THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $13.48YOU SAVE $1.5!
Buy it
DVD Road to Morocco
Road to Morocco, number three in the series of breezy comedies teaming Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, may be the funniest of the bunch. Bing and Bob find themselves Morocco-bound ("like Webster's dictionary"), caught in an elaborately faked-up world of harems, palm trees, and other Arabian Nights bric-a-brac. Naturally, Dorothy Lamour is also there, as she was the customary target of male rivalry in the Road scenarios. There is something so loose and ingratiating about the patter between Hope and Crosby that it doesn't ultimately matter if half the jokes don't land; these guys had their own comfortable rhythm, fueled by cheerful one-upmanship. Their sense of spontaneity broke the fourth wall between movie and audience in a way only the Marx Brothers had really accomplished before, and audiences--feeling in on the joke--ate it up. Songs (including "Moonlight Becomes You"), topical references, and ancient vaudeville routines fill out the program. --Robert Horton
This is Bing and Bob's finest and funniest road picture by a wide margin. Their interplay and chemistry together is shown to its best advantage here. Bing's two songs, "Moonlight Becomes You" and "Just Found a Hole in My Shoe" are catchy and wonderfully sung. Bob Hope is, as always, absolutely hilarious. His comedic timing is seriously under-rated. It's no wonder Woody Allen thinks he's the greatest movie comedian in history.
There are a number of inside jokes in this movie, and younger viewers will not understand the references to Bob's Pepsodent radio show, Bing's lousy horses and the Kraft Music Hall. But it's fast-paced, genuinely funny and a blast from first to last.
The Best
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!
This movie is brilliantly quick-witted fun and is thoroughly unpretentious. It's about as serious as a jelly bean and only a fatuous, pseudo-intellectual would use a review of it as an opportunity to spout post-modernist drivel such as interpreting the audience inclusive familiarity in which the movie undeniably and hilariously indulges as an example of that sorry philosophy. Then again, though this movie would have to be warped to illustrate the point, there may be some validity to the claim "postmodernism has its roots in vaudevillian comedy", because there is no doubt that from its foundation up post-modernism is a joke. Nonetheless, to those of you who haven't seen this film, please don't let the backhanded compliments of some keep you from enjoying this wonderful movie. It is what it is - irreverent, joyful goofiness - and it will hopefully outlive the largely bankrupt ideas which have currency among contemporary Western intelligentsia.
Here's the first trip in what would become one of Paramount Pictures' most profitable film series of the '40s. When this comedy was released in 1940, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had separately achieved stardom, though Crosby was an established power and Hope still a hot comedian new to movies. In fact, Hope is billed third in Road to Singapore, below Der Bingle and Dorothy Lamour. The script establishes what would be a constant in the Road series: a ramshackle plot, a handful of songs, and plenty of irreverent banter between the two boys. Crosby plays Josh Mallon, scion of a wealthy family, who prefers the vagabond life to his stuffy family; his pal Ace Lannigan (Hope) is only too happy to escape. They end up sharing a waterfront shack in Singapore and vying for the affections... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bing Crosby - Dorothy Lamour - Bob Hope Director(s): Victor Schertzinger DVD Release Date: Released the 05 March 2002 This item is currently not available.
List Price: $14.98 Your Price: YOU SAVE $14.98!
Buy it
I feel sorry for people who can't appreciate Hope and Crosby "road" pictures. This is the fourth in the series, and has the boys masquerading as the killers Sperry and McGurk, from whom they've stolen the map to a gold mine, but which really belongs to Dorothy Lamour, but which... and you know it really doesn't matter anyway. The point is they've got this thin plot on which to hang a series of hit-and-miss jokes, coming fast enough to make it just all right and a certain amount of time to see who gets Dorothy Lamour, while maintaining their fierce and friendly and wisecracking rivalry. They're in the Klondike this time around, which doesn't stop the film from working in a glimpse of Dorothy in her sarong. Along the way, animals talk, including the humorist Robert Benchley, whose... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bing Crosby - Bob Hope - Dorothy Lamour Director(s): Hal Walker DVD Release Date: Released the 01 April 2003 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
List Price: $14.98 Your Price: $13.48YOU SAVE $1.5!
Buy it
The second Road movie from Paramount Pictures finds barnstorming con artists Chuck Reardon (Bing Crosby) and Hubert "Fearless" Frazier (Bob Hope) at liberty after their act goes haywire. (In these movies, Crosby generally lures the suckers into the tent, while Hope is always stuck getting shot out of the cannon.) A phony map to a diamond mine brings our boys into the middle of Africa, which means there's a good chance they'll end up sitting in a cauldron while natives perform a cannibal dance around them. These stereotypes would be offensive if the movie wasn't actively parodying the kind of jungle movie popular in 1941 (just as Road to Morocco would satirize the Arabian nights picture). Dorothy Lamour is along for the ride, of course, and her scene in a tight clinch with... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bing Crosby - Bob Hope - Dorothy Lamour Director(s): Victor Schertzinger DVD Release Date: Released the 01 April 2003 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
List Price: $14.98 Your Price: $13.48YOU SAVE $1.5!
Buy it
Every great film has a repeating line, and Road to Rio has that one. It's always been one of my favorites - if not THE favorite - of the road pictures, but maybe the lustre has worn off. Still, "I hate you. I loathe you. I despise you" is a long-time family joke, and this film, if it grabs you at the right moment, is a gem. The musical numbers, as usual, are terrific, and there are so many throw-away lines and sight gags that this "road" is one that should be traveled. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bing Crosby - Bob Hope - Dorothy Lamour Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod DVD Release Date: Released the 21 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $9.99 Your Price: $9.99YOU SAVE $0!
Buy it
Hope and Crosby..., I could just leave this review at that, their names say it all! But okay, I will fill you in on this little treasure. This is the 6th in the road series films made by our boys. This one made in 1953 was filmed in technicolor.
Bob and Bing are traveling the high seas in this one. They're on the run from Australia, where a pair of irate fathers are after them with shotguns, oops make that boomerangs, to make them keep their promises of marriage to the daughters. The chase is on and they guys wind up taking a job as deep sea divers, hired by some royal islanders. Once there they only have to deal with a giant squid, poison darts, and an evil prince in their escapades. Naturally they both fall for the same girl, the beautiful... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bing Crosby - Bob Hope - Dorothy Lamour Director(s): Hal Walker DVD Release Date: Released the 21 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $9.99 Your Price: $9.99YOU SAVE $0!
Buy it
