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Writers:
Don Hartman (story) and
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Release Date:
11 April 1941 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
IT'S THAT GLEESOME THREESOME AGAIN! Giving you your worth in mirth! Toping all the fun in "Road to Singapore!" (original print media ad, includes misspelling of "Topping")
Plot:
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Bing Crosby ... Chuck Reardon

Bob Hope ... Hubert 'Fearless' Frazier

Dorothy Lamour ... Donna Latour
Una Merkel ... Julia Quimby
Eric Blore ... Charles Kimble
Douglass Dumbrille ... Slave trader
Iris Adrian ... French soubrette in cafe
Lionel Royce ... Monsieur Lebec
Buck Woods ... Thonga
Leigh Whipper ... Scarface
Ernest Whitman ... Whiteface
Noble Johnson ... Chief
Joan Marsh ... Dimples, helper in Human Cannonball act
Luis Alberni ... Native booth proprietor
Robert Middlemass ... Police inspector
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Passed | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6869)
Filming Locations:
Imperial County, California, USA
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Quotes:
Hubert 'Fearless' Frazier: We're going with them...
Chuck Reardon: We're going with them...
Hubert 'Fearless' Frazier, Chuck Reardon: We're Going With Them.
Hubert 'Fearless' Frazier, Chuck Reardon: Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake, Baker's Man. Bake A Cake As Fast As you...
Hubert 'Fearless' Frazier: He Must've Seen The Picture!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Road to Rio (1947) more
Soundtrack:
IT'S ALWAYS YOU more

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Good Old Fashioned Jungle Fun, 29 June 2004
7/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

A previous reviewer said something interesting about this second Road picture being a satire on all those Hollywood jungle epics. A pet peeve of mine has always been that American's concepts of Africa came out of those films. We were not in the imperialist game in Africa which was good, but we also knew nothing about these people, their politics and culture, and in some respects we're paying for that ignorance.

That being said, I can't hold up Road to Zanzibar for that kind of criticism. It's a comedy and a funny one. With the success of the Road to Singapore and the obvious chemistry between Bob and Bing, the boys could now unload their monkeyshines on the audience full blast.

This film marked the beginning of a long association between composer James Van Heusen and Bing Crosby. Van Heusen was replacing Jimmy Monaco as partner to Johnny Burke, lyricist, and this was the first of many Crosby films they would score.

And the songs followed the usual Road picture pattern. Bing starts the movie off by singing You Lucky People You under the opening credits and continuing it in the opening scene at a carnival sideshow, a nice patented Crosby philosophical number. Dotty sings You're Dangerous while trying to vamp Hope the schnook. But then Bing croons to Dotty It's Always You another ballad and finally Hope and Crosby have a patter number Birds of a Feather sung in up tempo as the law is closing in. In that same scene is Eric Blore, better known for Fred Astaire films and he contributes to the clowning with a nice touch.

In a sense this is the first real Road picture because Singapore didn't have a lot of the spontaneity the others do because no one figured it would be such a hit. So get out and hit the Road.

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