Road to Singapore (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Victor Schertzinger

Escritores:

Frank Butler (screenplay)
Don Hartman (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 marzo 1940 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Musical | Romance

Frase comercial:

Ready For Fun . . Fight . . or a South Seas Romance . . . ! They find them all on the . . .

Plot:

Bing Crosby an Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore...

Plot Keywords:

Playboy | Family Business | South Sea Islands | Whip | Socialite

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Prologue

Reparto

Bing Crosby	...	Joshua 'Josh' Mallon V
Dorothy Lamour	...	Mima
Bob Hope	...	Ace Lannigan
Charles Coburn	...	Joshua Mallon IV
Judith Barrett	...	Gloria Wycott
Anthony Quinn	...	Caesar
Jerry Colonna	...	Achilles Bombanassa

También conocida como:

Beach of Dreams (USA) (working title)
Road to Mandalay (USA) (working title)
Ruta de Singapur (Spain) [es]

Duración:

85 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

France:U | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #5839)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

During a lunch break, 'Bob Hope' threw a handful of the soap suds at Dorothy Lamour and soon Bing Crosby became involved. The fight ended when Lamour cornered Hope and Crosby and threw all she had at them. The director was not particularly pleased because it would take hours to repair their hair, makeup, and clothing.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: In one of the opening shots of the ship coming into port, the smoke from factories along the shore is moving backwards into the smokestacks.

Citas:

Joshua Mallon IV: You seem to think the world is just some sort of a three-ring circus, and all you've got to do is to run around and have fun.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Road to Rio (1947)

Banda de Sonido:

Sweet Potato Piper

Prologue

The first of the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" series, and not the best.

What's wrong with it? People have complained that it is plot heavy but that's a little hard to swallow because the plot could be used to stuff a portobello mushroom.

The problem, I think, is that it's too serious, if you can believe it. When one of the guys loses Dorothy Lamour he acts as if he's really hurt, which destroys the ethos of the film. Too many songs, although none of them is worse than any of the ones that were to follow.

No ipsative gags. How could there be? There can't be any reference to earlier movies like this because there were no earlier movies like this. Bob Hope acts as if he is trying to follow the plot, instead of improvising and winging it. He hasn't become quite the cowardly miles gloriosus of the later films. Crosby is saddled with a past from which he's trying to escape. And the gags -- though lingered over -- just aren't there.

Yet it's not a bad movie. Two guys go to Southeast Asia and meet a girl. Everybody's good humored. It's diverting.

You won't be depressed after you see it.