Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco

Infobox_Film
name = Road to Morocco


caption = 1942 movie poster
director = David Butler
producer = Paul Jones
writer = Frank Butler
Don Hartman
starring = Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
Anthony Quinn
music = Victor Young
cinematography = William Mellor
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = November 10, 1942
runtime = 82 min
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = Road to Zanzibar
followed_by = Road to Utopia
amg_id = 1:41576
imdb_id = 0035262

"Road to Morocco" is a 1942 Academy Award nominated comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. It is the third of the "Road to..." movies that satirises the Arabian Nights genre and stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake.

The movie was written by Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by David Butler for Paramount Pictures. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Recording and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. In 1996, "Road to Morocco" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film was topical as American troops landed in Morocco on 8 November 1942 during Operation Torch.

ongs

* "(We're off on the) Road to Morocco", performed by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
* "Ain't Got a Dime to My Name", by Bing Crosby
* "Constantly", Dorothy Lamour
* "Moonlight Becomes You", Bing CrosbyAll lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

Cultural references

In 1982, a movie poster for this movie appeared in the background of a panel on the first page of V for Vendetta.

The TV series "Duckman" referenced this movie in the episode Road to Dendron in title and song, also borrowing and referencing jokes of the original.

The TV series "Family Guy" referenced this movie in the episode "Road to Rhode Island", in both the title and its song, "We're off on the road to Rhode Island."

Family Guy make another parody in the title of the episodes "Road to Europe" and "Road to Rupert". And also in the upcoming Road to... episode, "Road to Germany".

In Mel Brooks's History of the World Part I, the characters sing a short parody of "Road to Morocco", singing "We're off on the road to Judea..."

Trivia

At one point in the film Hope and Crosby encounter a camel (seen also on the poster above). This is a Bactrian camel, but the camels in Morocco are Arabian camels.

The moment where Bob Hope is spit on by the aforementioned camel was completely unscripted. He had not paid attention to the keeper's instructions and the camel spat in his face. Hence, Bing Crosby's over-the-top reaction is genuine. It was true to the nature of the film and was kept. In his 1985 film Spies Like Us, Chevy Chase attempts to goad a camel into spitting at him in similar fashion, without success.

Copyright

The film's copyright has lapsed into the public domain.

References

*imdb title | id=0035262 | title=Road to Morocco
*amg title | id=1:41576 | title=Road to Morocco


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