Road to Morocco

Released Nov 11, 1942

1 hr. 23 min.

Musical

Comedy

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79%

14 Reviews

Tomatometer

78%

5,000+ Ratings

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Starving vagabond Jeff (Bing Crosby) sells best friend Orville (Bob Hope) into slavery in a Moroccan marketplace to buy food. Searching for his partner after an attack of conscience, Jeff discovers that Orville is now engaged to the gorgeous Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour), whose astrologers have told her that her first husband will die violently, leaving her free to marry her beloved Sheik Mullay Kasim (Anthony Quinn). But when the princess falls for Jeff, things get complicated.

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CodyZamboni

Movie is an amusing musical comedy, and another successful pairing of the two stars. What I liked best were the clever break the fourth wall jokes, some that involve talking camels. Dorothy Lamour is stunning and charming, but she has competition with lots of beautiful harem girls. I also enjoyed the second unit location shooting in the Arizona sand dunes.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/23

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Hope and Crosby are two childhood fighting pals, first on a raft at sea, then reaching a desert shore. A camel finds them and they ride to Morocco. With no money, Crosby sells Hope into slavery (without the latter's knowledge), only to find him with the local princess, who he now wants for herself. Rivalry and treachery ensue. Yes, the movie is old, silly escapist entertainment for a worried wartime audience, but still works today thanks to broad if crazy humor and great performances by the leads, who also take jibes at their employers and government censors without overdoing it. Classic songs also make the experience enjoyable.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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steve d

The best of the road films.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Road to Morocco (1942) Staring Bing Crosby & Bob Hope The strangest part was the camels with the animated talking bottom lips and animated eyes towards the end of this film. I personally did not find this film funny at all. The comedy was slap stick like and it did not make me laugh. What got me was how much of this film looked like it was either blue screen or there was a projected background for scenes rather than use a real environment that looked more like the desert or a location. I thought it was dumb that each time they got ship wrecked it was for smoking in a powder room. It was like come on. After they got Shipwrecked for smoking onboard a ship.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/01/20

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Reading the 2nd volume of the bio of Bing Crosby, I realized I have never watched a "Road" movie with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. The movie is topical (1942!) and just plain silly fun

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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The best, GREATEST comedy movie ever made! With 2 of the best movie songs ever sung: the title song and Moonlight Becomes You!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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David Butler

Director

Bing Crosby

Jeff Peters

Bob Hope

Orville "Turkey" Jackson

Dorothy Lamour

Princess Shalmar

Anthony Quinn

Mullay Kasim

Dona Drake

Mihirmah

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Paul Trench

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All this adds up to a good evening's entertainment.

May 27, 2021

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Steven D. Greydanus

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Lighthearted and nonsensical, sophisticated but not overplotted, Road to Morocco represents the point at which the Road-movie formula had hit its stride but hadn't yet descended into self-parody.

Rated: B+

Aug 10, 2003

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Zita Short

InSession Film

Personally, I didn’t think that the chemistry between Hope and Crosby was all that sparkling.

Rated: D+

Feb 7, 2023

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Full of nonsensical, fantastical feats of stupidity and playful sabotage - even though few of them are memorable and most are of the low-effort, cartoonish variety.

Rated: 4/10

Jan 2, 2022

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The third in the popular Paramount series, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, is considered by some to be the most entertaining.

Rated: B+

Apr 29, 2012

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Susan Granger

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Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2006

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Synopsis

Starving vagabond Jeff (Bing Crosby) sells best friend Orville (Bob Hope) into slavery in a Moroccan marketplace to buy food. Searching for his partner after an attack of conscience, Jeff discovers that Orville is now engaged to the gorgeous Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour), whose astrologers have told her that her first husband will die violently, leaving her free to marry her beloved Sheik Mullay Kasim (Anthony Quinn). But when the princess falls for Jeff, things get complicated.

Director: David Butler
Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 11, 1942, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 27, 2016

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