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Road to Morocco Overview:

Road to Morocco (1942) was a Comedy - Adventure Film directed by David Butler and produced by Buddy G. DeSylva and Paul Jones.

SYNOPSIS

Third time's a charm for the "Road" series. The third entry is classic film comedy at its best, and the best of the series. Hope and Crosby team at Arabian Nights fantasies, and the set pieces send up every cliché in the form. Shipwreck survivors Hope and Crosby hitch a ride on a wisecracking passing camel and head for Morocco where Bing sells Bob into slavery. It turns out to be love slavery as Crosby finds Hope in the lap of luxury, and Lamour's lap, as he awaits a royal marriage. Sheik Quinn has another idea. Wonderful fun with a snappy script, the usual asides, and cameos.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Road to Morocco was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996.

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingFrank Butler, Don HartmanNominated
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Watch It: Road to Morocco (1942) (1)

By Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013 From Pretty Clever Films

Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. The movie is the third of the “Road to …” films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and also features Anthony Quinn and... Read full article

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By Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013 From Pretty Clever Films

Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. The movie is the third of the “Road to …” films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and also features Anthony Quinn and... Read full article

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Road to Morocco Quotes:

Turkey Jackson: How'd you get the spinach, old boy?
Jeff Peters: Funny thing, a guy I've never seen before in my life gives me 2,500 Kolacs... that's 200 federal diplomas, are you listening?
Turkey Jackson: 200 skins? Why, what for?
Jeff Peters: I sold him something.
Turkey Jackson: Well you've got nothing to sell! We've already hocked your pivot tooth.
Jeff Peters: It wasn't much, but it was all I had, and was he anxious to get it!
Turkey Jackson: What did you sell him?
Jeff Peters: Look, uh, Orville, I want you to keep very calm now. Don't get excited.
Turkey Jackson: [grabbing Jeff, nervous] What did you sell him?
Jeff Peters: You.
Turkey Jackson: Oh, well, for a minute I - HUH? Me? Wait a minute, get that guy and give him those fish back! What's the matter with you, you can't sell me, I'm not a horse! It's just the way I comb my hair!
Jeff Peters: We must storm the place.
Turkey Jackson: You storm. I'll stay here and drizzle.
Turkey Jackson: A fine thing. First, you sell me for two hundred bucks. Then I'm gonna marry the Princess; then you cut in on me. Then we're carried off by a desert sheik. Now, we're gonna have our heads chopped off.
Jeff Peters: I know all that.
Turkey Jackson: Yeah, but the people who came in the middle of the picture don't.
Jeff Peters: You mean they missed my song?
Jeff Peters: Orville, where are you?
Turkey Jackson: Right over here, behind these goosepimples.
[after Mullay Kasim rides through town with his men yelling and firing their rifles in the air]
Jeff Peters: Say fuzzy, who is that headstrong impetuous boy?
Bystander: He is Mullay Kasim, the Desert Sheik.
Turkey Jackson: What'd he come to town for, a manicure?
Bystander: Oh, he loves the Princess Shalmar of Karameesh. He has come here to ask her to marry him.
Jeff Peters: I'd hate to be around when he comes for a divorce!
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Road to Morocco Facts
Although this was the third "Road" picture as noted above, it was the first original screenplay, that is, the storyline wasn't based on an existing story.
In 1942, Decca Records issued a Bing Crosby solo version of the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen title song. A later commercial duet by Mr. Crosby and Bob Hope would be included on a Decca boxed album which otherwise was devoted to the Burke-Van Heusen score of Road to Utopia.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Paramount shot two endings for the film. The one not used had Bob Hope and Bing Crosby enlisting in the Marines and ended with the line "See you on the road to Tokyo."
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
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