Road to Zanzibar

Infobox Film
name = Road to Zanzibar


caption = 1941 movie poster
director = Victor Schertzinger
producer = Paul Jones
writer = Frank Butler &
Don Hartman
from a story by
Sy Bartlett &
Frank Butler
starring = Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Una Merkel
music = Victor Young
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = April 11, 1941
runtime = 91 min
country = U.S.
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = Road to Singapore
followed_by = Road to Morocco
amg_id = 1:41591
imdb_id = 0034116

"Road to Zanzibar" is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to..." series made by the trio.

Paramount executives owned the rights to a story by Sy Bartlett entitled "Find Colonel Fawcett" about two men trekking through the jungles of Madagascar. They felt that its plot was so similar to the recently released "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939) that it could not be made as written without seeming too derivative, so they turned the project over to Frank Butler and Don Hartman, the writers on the wildly successful "Road to Singapore" which Paramount had released the year before. Thus reborn as a comedy and spoof of the safari genre, the film resembled its predecessor in every important way, with plot taking a back seat to gags (many of them ad libbed), and music. The film was so successful that further "Road to..." pictures were assured. Now in public domain.

ongs

*"You Lucky People, You", performed by Bing Crosby
*"African Etude / Road To Zanzibar", performed by Bing Crosby and a chorus while on safari
*"You're Dangerous", by Dorothy Lamour
*"It's Always You", by Bing CrosbyAll lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

References

Strait, Raymond, "Bob Hope: A Tribute". New York:Pinnacle Books, 2003.

External links

*imdb title | id=0034116 | title=Road to Zanzibar
*amg title | id=1:41591 | title=Road to Zanzibar