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Road to Utopia Overview:

Road to Utopia (1946) was a Adventure - Comedy Film directed by Hal Walker and produced by Buddy G. DeSylva and Paul Jones.

SYNOPSIS

The fourth "Road" movie, and one of the most gag-filled, opens with old married couple Hope and Lamour comfortable in their mansion reminiscing about their past in the Yukon gold country. Vaudevillians Hope and Crosby escaped San Francisco on a steamer heading north, impersonating vicious killers and with a stolen mine deed in their pockets. Lamour, the daughter of the rightful owner and a dance-hall singer, woos both to get her hands on the deed. Hope gets the girl, but their child looks like Bing! Humorist Robert Benchley narrates.

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

Academy Awards 1946 --- Ceremony Number 19 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingNorman Panama, Melvin FrankNominated
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Road to Utopia BlogHub Articles:

Road to Utopia ( 1945 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Feb 28, 2023 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are on the road once again in the 1945 comedy classic Road to Utopia, this time heading out to Alaska during the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century. Hope and Crosby play a couple of down-in-their-luck vaudevillians named Chester and Duke who find a map to a gold m... Read full article

Musical Monday: Road to Utopia (1946)

on Dec 27, 2021 From Comet Over Hollywood

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Musical Monday: Road to Utopia (1948)

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Road to Utopia (1946)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 15, 2013 From 4 Star Films

Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour in this fourth Road picture, this film begins in the present with an old marry couple who gets a surprise visitor. Then the story flashes back to the turn of the century where two lowlifes commit murder in order to steal the map to a gold mine. Howe... Read full article

Road to Utopia (1946)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 15, 2013 From 4 Star Films

Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour in this fourth Road picture, this film begins in the present with an old marry couple who gets a surprise visitor. Then the story flashes back to the turn of the century where two lowlifes commit murder in order to steal the map to a gold mine. Howe... Read full article

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Road to Utopia Quotes:

Duke: Chester, you'd better face it - the cards say "Alaska!"
Chester Hooton: No wonder - it's a cold deck!
Sal Van Hoyden: [singing] You wouldn't dare be too bold, would you? And think that my hand was to hold, would you? And you wouldn't play on my sympathy, then take advantage of me... would you? You shouldn't be quite so near, should you? Or whisper those words in my ear, should you? You can't get romantic; that, you know, takes two. But darling, if I would... would you?
[Chester has the hiccups]
Duke: Can't you suppress it somehow?
Chester Hooton: Frighten me.
Duke: I can't, I haven't got a mirror.
[Duke loses a talent show to a trained monkey]
Chester Hooton: [to Duke] Next time I bring Sinatra.
Duke: Experience is the best teacher.
Chester Hooton: Oh, experience is the best teacher, huh?
Duke: Naturally, and I'm a Ph.D.
Chester Hooton: Yeah, a pin-headed dope.
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Road to Utopia Facts
Filmed between December 3, 1943 and late January 1944, the movie premiered on February 27, 1946 at the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan.
The big hit of the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen score was the comically saucy "Personality." Put over in the film by worldly wise Dorothy Lamour, the tune was transformed by Decca Records into easy jazz, courtesy of Bing Crosby and Eddie Condon's Orchestra featuring the cornet of Wild Bill Davidson. This interpretation showed up on two Decca releases: a 78 which rose to number nine on the "Billboard" singles listing, and as part of the boxed album of selections from the movie. Capitol's waxing by singer-songwriter Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers captured first place on the "Billboard" singles chart during the week of March 9, 1946.
The fourth of the seven Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour "Road" films.
This is the only one of the seven "Road" pictures in which Bing Crosby and Bob Hope do not do their famous "pat-a-cake" routine.
Bob Hope recalled that during the scene where he and Bing Crosby were bedding down beside their cabin in the Klondike, they were to be joined by a bear. They were told that the bear was tame and its trainer would always be nearby. Against their better judgment they went along with it. However, when the cameras started filming, the bear ambled over to Hope and, instead of lying down next to him like it was supposed to, the animal sniffed him and started growling. Hope and Crosby immediately stopped the scene and refused to work with the bear any longer, despite the trainer's protestations that it was tame and harmless. The next day the bear attacked its trainer and tore his arm off.
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