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{{quote|''There had been comedy teams in movies before, of course, and fast-paced dialogue, but the Road pictures introduced something new. The interplay between [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho and Chico Marx]], say, or [[The Burns and Allen Show|George Burns and Gracie Allen]], had an abstract, almost surreal quality. The witty repartee of 1930s screwball comedies like ''[[My Man Godfrey]]'' or ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' was too polished and stylized to be mistaken for anything but movie dialogue. [[Bob Hope|Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby|Crosby]] seemed like ordinary guys — like Hope and Crosby, in fact — perfectly attuned to each other's thoughts, moods, obsessions and vulnerabilities.''|Richard Zoglin, in his essay on ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' for the [[National Film Registry]]}}
{{quote|''There had been comedy teams in movies before, of course, and fast-paced dialogue, but the Road pictures introduced something new. The interplay between [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho and Chico Marx]], say, or [[The Burns and Allen Show|George Burns and Gracie Allen]], had an abstract, almost surreal quality. The witty repartee of 1930s screwball comedies like ''[[My Man Godfrey]]'' or ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' was too polished and stylized to be mistaken for anything but movie dialogue. [[Bob Hope|Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby|Crosby]] seemed like ordinary guys — [[Shaped Like Itself|like Hope and Crosby]], in fact — perfectly attuned to each other's thoughts, moods, obsessions and vulnerabilities.''|Richard Zoglin, in his essay on ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' for the [[National Film Registry]]}}


The ''Road to ...'' movies are a series of comedy films starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]], usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre.
The '''''Road to ...''''' movies are a series of comedy films starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]], usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre.


* ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' (1940)

Revision as of 01:53, 1 January 2020
There had been comedy teams in movies before, of course, and fast-paced dialogue, but the Road pictures introduced something new. The interplay between Groucho and Chico Marx, say, or George Burns and Gracie Allen, had an abstract, almost surreal quality. The witty repartee of 1930s screwball comedies like My Man Godfrey or Bringing Up Baby was too polished and stylized to be mistaken for anything but movie dialogue. Hope and Crosby seemed like ordinary guys — like Hope and Crosby, in fact — perfectly attuned to each other's thoughts, moods, obsessions and vulnerabilities.
—Richard Zoglin, in his essay on Road to Morocco for the National Film Registry

The Road to ... movies are a series of comedy films starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre.

The franchise inspired some other movies, including The Road to El Dorado.

Road to Morocco was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.

Road to Bali fell into the public domain because its copyright was not renewed in time once it lapsed. Watch it at Wikimedia Commons or the Internet Archive.

The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Road To franchise.
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
Individual movies provide examples, straight or parodied, of:

Road to Singapore

Road to Zanzibar

Road to Morocco

Tropes specific to Road to Morocco are listed on that work's page.

Road to Utopia

Road to Rio

  • The Cavalry: They arrive just after the fact in Rio, although it's not for lack of trying.
  • MacGuffin

Road to Bali

The Road to Hong Kong

  • Demoted to Extra: Dorothy Lamour, in The Road to Hong Kong. She actually wasn't going to appear in it at all after Crosby insisted on (and got) a younger female lead in Joan Collins, but Hope intervened to at least get her a cameo appearance.
References in other works:

Film - Animated

Film - Live-Action

Music

Western Animation

  • Family Guy episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", and "Road to the Multiverse"
  • Taz-Mania episodes "Road To Tasmania", "Return Of The Road To Tasmania Strikes Back" and "Yet Another Road To Tasmania"
  • Duckman episode "Road to Dendron"
  • The Tale Spin episodes "For Whom the Bell Klangs" and "The Road to Macadamia"
  • The Legend of Tarzan episode "Tarzan and the Fugitives"
  • The ALFTales cartoon episode "The Aladdin Brothers"
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