Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Dorothy Lamour in "Road to Bali" (1952)

George Cochran (Bing Crosby) and Harold Gridley (Bob Hope), American song-and-dance men performing in Melbourne, Australia, leave in a hurry to avoid shotgun weddings. They end up in Darwin, where they take jobs as deep sea divers for villainous Prince Ken Arok (Murvyn Vye). They are taken by boat to an idyllic island on the way to Bali, Indonesia. They vie for the favors of exotic, and half-Scottish, Princess Lala McTavish (Dorothy Lamour), a cousin of the Prince. A hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels, which the Prince plans to claim as his own.
After escaping from the Prince and his henchmen, the three are shipwrecked and washed up on another island. Lala is now in love with both of the boys and can't decide which to choose. However, once the natives find them, she learns that in their society, a woman may take multiple husbands, and declares she will marry them both. While the boys are prepared for the ceremony, both thinking the other man lost, plans are changed. She's being unwillingly wed to the already much-married King Ramayana (Leon Askin), while the boys end up married to each other.
Displeased with the arrangement, a volcano god initiates a massive eruption. After fleeing, the three end up on yet another beach where Lala chooses George over Harold. An undaunted Harold conjures up Jane Russell from a basket by playing a flute. Alas, she, too, rejects Harold, which means George walks off with both Lala and Jane. A lonesome Harold is left on the beach, demanding that the film shouldn't finish and asking the audience to stick around to see what's going to happen next.
A 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker, produced by Harry Tugend, screenplay by Frank Butler & Hal Kanter & William Morrow, story by Butler and Harry Tugend, cinematography by George Barnes, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe, Ralph Moody , and Leon Askin.
A co-production of Bing Crosby Enterprises, Hope Enterprises and Paramount, released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first "Road to ..." picture since "Road to Rio" (1947), and was known during production as "The Road to Hollywood"; the sixth of the seven "Road to …" movies; the only entry in the series filmed in Technicolor. The final "Road to ..." film in which Dorothy Lamour's role would be the female lead. "The Road to Hong Kong"(1962) featured Joan Collins, with a cameo by Lamour.
It was the first to feature surprise cameo appearances from other well-known stars of the day. Among the celebrities who made token "gag" appearances in this film are bandleader Bob Crosby (Bing's brother), Humphrey Bogart, by way of a clip from "The African Queen" (1951), Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, and Jane Russell, as her character from the film "Son of Paleface" (1952). The cameo by Martin and Lewis was part of a 'comedy trade' whereby they made an appearance in this movie while Hope and Crosby appeared in Martin and Lewis's "Scared Stiff" (1953). Martin and Lewis also made films for Paramount at the time.
The giant squid that threatens Bob Hope underwater was seen attacking Ray Milland in Paramount's production of Cecil B. DeMille's "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942). The erupting volcano was taken directly from the Paramount production "Aloma of the South Seas" (1941), also starring Lamour.
Hope & Crosby break the "fourth wall" several times to make side comments to the audience. Bob Hope makes an obscure joke about the Chicago musicians union. He shows Bing Crosby his snake-charmer instrument and says, "Hey, I've been playing this flute all night. Have to clear it with Petrillo." He was referring to James Petrillo, the heavy-handed president of the Chicago Musician's Union.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was very enthusiastic in his review of January 30, 1953: "It is apparent that this veteran and camera-scarred team is the neatest, smoothest combo of comics now working the fun side of the screen. Apart, they may be very funny or clever or quaint or what you will, according to where you are sitting and what sort of picture they’re in. But together, and in a 'Road' picture, with the consequent freedom of style and reckless impulse that goes with it, they are pretty nigh nonpareil. At least, that's the word of this reviewer who spent a small part of yesterday falling out of a seat at the Astor while desperately clutching his sides. The reason? Quite simply, Road to Bali is a whoopingly hilarious film, full of pure crazy situations and deliciously discourteous gags, all played with evident relish and split-second timing by the team."
Songs:
The Merry Go Runaround (Hope, Crosby, Lamour)
Chicago Style (Hope, Crosby)
Hoot-Mon (Hope, Crosby)
To See You" (Crosby, reprized Crosby)
Moonflowers (Lamour)
Two Little Lambs (Hope, Crosby). All songs except "Two Little Lambs" by James Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics).
Hope & Crosby are quite a team and put on some fun top-class entertainment with fun song and dance routines.

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