Road to Morocco (1942) | |
| Director(s) | David Butler |
| Producer(s) | Paul Jones (associate), Buddy G. DeSylva (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical |
| Top Topics | Exotic Lands, Road Movie, Romance (Comic), Romance (Musical) |
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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.
(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)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Writing | Frank Butler, Don Hartman | Nominated |
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Musical Monday: Road to Morocco (1942)
on Jun 16, 2025 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical:Road to Morocco ? Musical #147... Read full article
Road to Morocco (1942)
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By Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013 From Pretty Clever FilmsRoad 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
Watch It: Road to Morocco (1942) (2)
By Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013 From Pretty Clever FilmsRoad 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: What do you mean, sacred?
Jeff Peters: You just became a full-blooded American idiot.
Turkey Jackson: No, you do it! Who's gonna believe *I'm* an idiot?
Jeff Peters: Will you look at the head start you got?
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: 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?
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Facts about
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."
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1996.
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