Bob and Bing Road Week: Road to Bali

Welcome back boys and girls to Day 4 of Bob and Bing Road Week and I thought we would scoot on ahead in the saga. Seriously, there is only so many travel tramp movies I can endure and I saw Zombie Lake. We instead gaze into the professional of musical entertainment that does NOT involve scanty clothing, auto tune or even a failed series of marriages. This is Road to Bali.

The Master would not approve.

Harold Gridley: He's gonna spoil, folks. Now's the time to go out and get the popcorn.

George Cochran (Bing Crosby) and Harold Gridely (Bob Hope) are a double act song and dance number working in Melbourne, Australia and are scurrying in a hurry to leave, not from angry mobs but a heap of women longing for their hand in marriage. They end up in Darwin (Northern Australia not a dead philosopher and theorist) were they sign on to be pearl divers for a prince.

Hopping a boat (Oh God, not again) and taken to Bali, Indonesia where our boys fine acceptance by the lovely Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour), cousin to their employer Prince Arok and go ga ga for her as per usual. To avoid any imperial entanglement, the scamps found a large chest of priceless jewels to keep the prince distracted long enough to skedaddle.

Bob's the one with the really hot air coming out.

Our titillating trio end up shipwrecked on yet another island and the natives are indeed restless.

The laws of the land decree any woman vying for the affection of two men must marry them both. Running around being offensive and politically incorrect our black face natives have issues with the men and feel it is their presence that has sent the volcano into eruption. Are the gangs' gooses cooked or will they beat the heat?

Just some quick info on the movie now. Out of the seven "Road" movies this has the only one to be be photographed in Technicolor. Bing Crosby makes references to the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Indians, which at the time he was a partial owner both teams. Cameo appearances in this flick include: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Jane Russell as herself, CarolynJones and even Humphrey Bogart (archived footage)

While this movie was released by Paramount, no one got around to getting it copy-writ and this is the only one of the seven Road movies that falls under public domain. So you amateur riffers can trash and joke through this flick if you like.

Two kilted kooks and a kitten,