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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Edmund Beloin (original story and screenplay) and
Jack Rose (original story and screenplay)
Release Date:
25 December 1947 (USA) more
Tagline:
Si, Si ! It's the maddest, merriest "Road" picture of all! You'll See! more
Plot:
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
The Papers, the world must never know. more (11 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bing Crosby | ... | Scat Sweeney |
 | Bob Hope | ... | Hot Lips Barton |
 | Dorothy Lamour | ... | Lucia Maria de Andrade |
 | Gale Sondergaard | ... | Catherine Vail |
 | Frank Faylen | ... | Trigger |
| Joseph Vitale | ... | Tony |
| George Meeker | ... | Sherman Mallory |
| Frank Puglia | ... | Rodrigues |
| Nestor Paiva | ... | Cardoso |
| Robert Barrat | ... | Johnson |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Capt. Harmon |
| Harry Woods | ... | Ship's Purser |
| The Wiere Brothers | ... | Three Musicians |
| The Andrews Sisters | ... | Themselves |
| Jerry Colonna | ... | Himself |
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Runtime:
100 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
UK:U | West Germany:12 | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #12478)
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Trivia:
Leading the cavalry chase at the end of the movie is Bob Hope's long-time radio partner, bushy mustached Jerry Colonna. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Hot Lips and Scat disguise themselves as the barber and shoeshine boy, Hot Lips begins to put shaving cream on the guy in the chair, including his mustache, but the close-up shows no shaving cream on his mustache. more
Quotes:
Scat Sweeney:
Are you admitting you're a dirty coward?
Hot Lips Barton:
No, a clean one!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997) (V) more
Soundtrack:
OLHA ELLA more
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Another journey with Bob, Bing, and Dotty, this time the boys are escaping the law and a couple of shotgun wielding fathers in Bing's case. They stowaway on a boat bound for Rio De Janeiro and they meet damsel in distress Dotty with her "aunt" Gale Sondergaard and her two henchmen Frank Faylen and Joseph Vitale. Dragon lady Gale has been hypnotizing Dottie to force her into a marriage so that her inheritance can be swindled.
The Road pictures always had a usual pattern of songs. A ballad for Crosby, a ballad for Lamour, and some patter songs for Crosby and Hope. Crosby sings one of his nicest ballads with But Beautiful. Hope and Crosby do Appalachicola, Fla and Dottie does an unforgettable version of Experience accompanied by Hope playing a bubble blowing trumpet.
Bing Crosby's most frequent singing partners were the Andrews Sisters on record. They did enough material to fill more than three of those old fashioned vinyl LPs. But their only appearance in a movie with Bing is here and they sing You Don't Have To Know The Language with him as an extra treat.
See it and figure out for yourself what was in those "papers" that the world was better off in blissful ignorance of.