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The 1990 They Might Be Giants song "Road Movie to Berlin" references the films in its title. The TaleSpin episode "Road to Macadamia" pays tribute to the series, including spoofs on the songs. Three episodes of the 1991–1995 animated series Taz-Mania spoofed the Road to.. movies, starring Hugh Tasmanian Devil, Taz's father and a Crosby parody.
Road to Rio is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. [4] Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner.
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven pictures in the popular "Road to ..." series made by the trio.
"The Merry-Go-Run-Around" by Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby "The Road To Bali" by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope (recorded commercially, but only used in the opening credits as sung by a chorus). Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Peggy Lee recorded all of the songs for Decca Records [14] and these were issued on a 10" LP.
Filmed from December 1943 to March 1944, the film is the only Road to … film without a real place in its title, though Alaska with its gold mines is referred to as "Utopia" several times in the film. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour starred, as they did in all but one of the series.
Road to Singapore is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope.Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to avoid romances on the fictional island of Kaigoon, where they meet a beautiful woman.
Variety commented: "Crosby, Hope and Lamour have done it again. Their click in Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar is eclipsed by Road to Morocco... Crosby, of course, is still more or less straighting for Hope’s incessantly steaming gags. The two have never teamed better, nor have they, seemingly, romped with such abandon." [3]
The lamasery where Hope goes to restore his memory is reused from Black Narcissus. [6] Peter Sellers' appearance as an Indian physician involves extended interplay with Crosby and Hope. The plot of the film (released 22 May 1962) involves espionage and space rockets predating Dr. No (released 5 October 1962) and the spy craze of the 1960s.