Rainey Dawn
Cute, corny, comedy classic. This film would not satisfy most of the youth today - the humor was quite a bit different back then than it is today but comedies like this still draws a viewing audience. The humor here is a bit "dry" but funny if you "get it".Hope & Crosby are quite a team and put on some fun song and dance routines as well. I still think the beginning of the film is the best part - the ending is good but the beginning quite fun.I don't think this is Bing or Bob's best film but it is a fun to watch if you like the "old school" humor.6/10
utgard14
Trying to avoid shotgun weddings, two entertainers (Bob Hope, Bing Crosby) run away and take jobs as deep sea divers. This leads them to Bali and princess Dorothy Lamour. Inevitably both guys vie for Dorothy's affections while tangling with bad guys and a giant squid.Routine 'Road' picture with the notable difference of it being in color. Hope and Crosby are always fun, especially when they break the fourth wall. Lamour is lovely in color. This was her last film for ten years. Some of the gags are tired but there are still lots of yuks. Also some decent songs. Overall the likable personalities of the trio keep it afloat. Jane Russell, Martin & Lewis, and Humphrey Bogart (through African Queen footage) all have cameos. There is one rather odd sequence where Dorothy dreams of her childhood pet monkey and we see a real chimp wearing a very creepy Bob Hope mask.
SanteeFats
I love and own all seven Road pictures. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have an on screen relationship that is hilarious. Dorothy Lamar appears in the first six movies as the love interest of both the guys but Crosby ends up with her by the end of the movie. She also is in the Hong Kong one but since it is a few years later she basically does a cameo as an older torch singer in a club. In this particular show the two guys are running from many shotgun marriage parties that are trying to find them. They end up at a small island nation where Hope is sent down to find the treasure while Bing woos the princess. Michael Ansara plays the bad guy and of course gets his comeuppance. Since this is old time Hollywood all the natives are played by whites in make up.
vincentlynch-moonoi
Well, they can't all be gems. This was probably the weakest of the Road pictures to date, although it does have beautiful Technicolor, elaborate sets, Dorothy Lamour, hilarious banter between Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and quite a few laughs...not to mention cameos by Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Bing's brother Bob, and Jane Russell.Sadly, the one thing lacking is coherent script. What passes for a script would have been more at home in a 1950s Bob Hope television show. This script...and road...needed a map. Instead, it wanders from gag to gag, laugh to laugh, skit to skit. But there's no continuity. And please, do we really need to stoop to amorous gorillas????? I've always enjoyed Hope and admired Crosby...not to mention some darned good road pictures. And, I'm still glad to have this one. But, despite rather lavish color, this is like driving down a dirt road. I'm only giving this one a weak "7".Of note, the Kino-Lorber redo on Blu Ray is high quality. Great color, slightly grainy from time to time, but I doubt you'll ever see a better restoration for this pic.
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