Road To Bali - DVD

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour. In this high-spirited comedy, two men on the trail of a beautiful woman run amuck through the jungle and stumble into a series of humorous scrapes. Cameo by Humphrey Bogart. 1952/color/91 min/NR.

In this sixth of seven Road to movies, Bob Hope (Son of Paleface), Bing Crosby (Road to Rio) and Dorothy Lamour (My Favorite Brunette) team up in their only color film in the series. Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie for her affections. Of course, the boys run into the usual perils such as cannibals, a giant squid and numerous cameos from some of Hollywood's biggest stars like Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Jane Russell and Humphrey Bogart. Director Hal Walker (At War with the Army) was no stranger to the three actors, having directed the trio in Road to Utopia. The seventh and final InchRoad toInch picture, Road to Hong Kong, would be released 10 years later for another studio and co-starred Joan Collins with Hope and Crosby, with Lamour only making a brief cameo appearance.

Road To Bali was the 6th. In the series of 'Road' pictures and the only one to be filmed in Technicolor. George (Bing Crosby) and Harold (Bob Hope), are vaudeville performers anxious to leave Australia to avoid various marriage proposals. They end up taking jobs as pearl divers. When they go to an island on the way to Bali, they meet and vie for the favors of the exotic Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour). A dive produces a chest of priceless jewels, which the Prince wants as his own. They escape from the prince, but get shipwrecked on another island. By now, Lala is in love with both of them, and can't decide which to choose. The natives inform her that a woman can marry multiple husbands. Lala decides to marry them both. However, all this changes when Lala has become unwillingly wed to the already much-married King (Leon Askin), while the boys end up married to each other. But, this is not the end of the story. You MUST watch to see how this hilarious romantic comedy resolves itself!! (90 minutes - 1952 - Color - 4 3)