Road to Zanzibar
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures semi-musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven pictures in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio. It takes place in the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
Plot
The film starts with con-artist Chuck Reardon singing "You Lucky People, You" as a side-show caller at a circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert "Fearless" Frazier. "Fearless" poses as a human cannonball, but quickly substitutes a dummy at the last minute and hides in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and the two of them flee to Africa. At a fancy restaurant, they're sent champagne by diamond baron Charles Kimble, who convinces Chuck to spend all their money on the deed to one of Kimble's diamond mines. When they find out Kimble is an eccentric and the deed is worthless, Fearless ends their partnership. Later that evening, Fearless comes back with a fistful of money, claiming to have sold the diamond mine to a Monsieur LeBec for a profit. LeBec wants Chuck and Fearless to accompany them to see the mine. Chuck and Fearless manage to escape and jump onto a boat bound for the interior.
Awards
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| author | Don Hartman Frank Butler |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Africa |
| director | Victor Schertzinger |
| editor | Alma Macrorie |
| genre | adventure comedy |
| keywords | advertise begin champagne claim diamond diamond mine even film star human cannonball sing slave auction swim their way |
| musicBy | Victor Young |
| producer | Paul Jones |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | buddy comedy musical comedy road movie romantic comedy romantic musical |