Other Titles • Road to Morocco (1942) • Der Weg nach Marokko (1949)
Synopses for Road to Morocco (1942)
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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
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Jim Peters and Turkey Jackson, two bumbling buffoons, are shipwrecked on an island off the coast of North Africa. When the beautiful Princess Shalimar comes to their rescue, Jim and Turkey think they've died and gone to heaven. But once her brawny, jealous husband finds out what these clowns have been up to, they're going to wish they had never left their island.
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The lone survivors of a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean, our heroes find themselves in the company of Princess Shalimar, who has purchased Bob and plans to make him her husband. This would be a swell plan except for the jealousy of nasty Sheik Mullay Kassim, played by the devilish Anthony Quinn. But Bing and Bob are resourceful fellows, and after a rollicking good time in which they bring Kassim and a rival sheik to the brink of war, they manage to bow out just in time to save their skins. Fortunately, Bing doesn't miss a chance to sing "Moonlight Becomes You" to the princess, a song that has become one of his most-beloved ballads.
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