Road to Morocco

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Road to Morocco

1942,

1h 23m,

Musical/

Comedy

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75%

12 Reviews

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78%

5,000+ Ratings

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12 Reviews

78%

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5,000+ Ratings

Starving vagabond Jeff (Bing Crosby) sells best friend Orville (Bob Hope) into slavery in a Moroccan marketplace to buy food. Searching for his partner after an attack of conscience, Jeff discovers that Orville is now engaged to the gorgeous Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour), whose astrologers have told her that her first husband will die violently, leaving her free to marry her beloved Sheik Mullay Kasim (Anthony Quinn). But when the princess falls for Jeff, things get complicated.

Paul Trench

London Evening Standard

May 27, 2021

All this adds up to a good evening's entertainment.

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Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films

Aug 10, 2003

B+

Lighthearted and nonsensical, sophisticated but not overplotted, Road to Morocco represents the point at which the Road-movie formula had hit its stride but hadn't yet descended into self-parody.

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Zita Short

InSession Film

Feb 7, 2023

D+

Personally, I didn’t think that the chemistry between Hope and Crosby was all that sparkling.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Jan 2, 2022

4/10

Full of nonsensical, fantastical feats of stupidity and playful sabotage - even though few of them are memorable and most are of the low-effort, cartoonish variety.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Apr 29, 2012

B+

The third in the popular Paramount series, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, is considered by some to be the most entertaining.

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Susan Granger

www.susangranger.com

Nov 17, 2006

3/5

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Poe R

Apr 20, 2019

Reading the 2nd volume of the bio of Bing Crosby, I realized I have never watched a "Road" movie with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. The movie is topical (1942!) and just plain silly fun

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Jan 26, 2019

The best, GREATEST comedy movie ever made! With 2 of the best movie songs ever sung: the title song and Moonlight Becomes You!

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Hermione W

May 8, 2018

Hope and Crosby are charmingly clever, the music is quite enchanting, and the rest is muck. Racist, sexist, homophobic, and so on-of course, the movie reflects its time in those ways, but that doesn't make it entertaining to watch Hope do a poor mockery of a mentally challenged person. While we should have the capacity to historicize without judgment, that doesn't mean the viewer should have to excuse without reflection, and simply put, that stuff today lands with a foul thud.

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David Butler

Director

Bing Crosby

Jeff Peters

Bob Hope

Orville "Turkey" Jackson

Dorothy Lamour

Princess Shalmar

Anthony Quinn

Mullay Kasim

Dona Drake

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Synopsis

Starving vagabond Jeff (Bing Crosby) sells best friend Orville (Bob Hope) into slavery in a Moroccan marketplace to buy food. Searching for his partner after an attack of conscience, Jeff discovers that Orville is now engaged to the gorgeous Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour), whose astrologers have told her that her first husband will die violently, leaving her free to marry her beloved Sheik Mullay Kasim (Anthony Quinn). But when the princess falls for Jeff, things get complicated.

Director: David Butler
Screenwriter: Frank Butler, Don Hartman
Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 11, 1942, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 27, 2016
Runtime: 1h 23m

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