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 clich? 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.

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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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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 D... Read full article


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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 D... Read full article


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Quotes from

Turkey Jackson: Aunt Lucy. I can see her now, lying on her dying bed, looking at you with those big, trusting eyes. 'Before I go, Jeff, promise me one thing,' she said. 'Promise me you'll always be a friend to little Orville,' she said. 'No matter what happens, you'll never leave the little jerk,' she said. 'Promise me, Jeff, promise me,' she said.
Jeff Peters: Yeah, then she up and died before I had the chance to say no.


Turkey Jackson: We're going to get married on... . uh... . when is the big day, Dream Thing?
Princess Shalmar: When the moon, in its last quarter, silvers the blossoms of the almond tree. That's Tuesday night, about nine.


Jeff Peters: We must storm the place.
Turkey Jackson: You storm. I'll stay here and drizzle.


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Facts about

Orville 'Turkey' Jackson said he was born in 1913. In reality, Bob Hope was born in 1903, making him ten years older than his character at the time.
Operation Torch, the US invasion of Morocco during the Second World War to liberate it from the pro-Nazi forces of Vichy France, began 48 hours before its first release.
The third of the seven Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour "Road" films.
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