Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Tower Rats 2020

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Road to Utopia

USA 1946
produced by
Paul Jones for Paramount
directed by Hal Walker
starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Jack LaRue, Robert Barrat, Nestor Paiva, Robert Benchley, Will Wright
written by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, music by Leigh Harline

Road to ..-series, Hope & Crosby

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
Bing Crosby tricks Bob Hope into going to Alaska just in time for the gold rush, & on the boat there they even find a map to a gold mine. Thing is, the map was in the possession of Sperry (Robert Barrat) & MacGurk (Nestor Paiva) who have stolen it from Dorothy Lamour's father, whom they have murdered - & these 2 cutthroats aren't likely to let go off the map that easily. Lamour meanwhile has hooked up with Ace Larsen (Douglass Dumbrille) though, who promises her to get the map back - what he fails to mention of course is, that he is planning to keep the mine. However, our boys manage to overthrow Sperry & MacGurk & even take on their identities ... & thus they become the most feared duo in the Alaskan town. But Dorothy Lamour uses her seductive charms on both Hope & Crosby to get the map ... but, after Larsen has already taken off in a dogsled, she learns she only got half the map. Soon everyone's on their way up North on dogsleds, Larsen & gang, & Hope & Crosby, searching for the mine (but each party with only half the map), Dorothy Lamour searching for the other half of the map, & Sperry & MakGurk, trying to get back at Hope & Corsby, & as such situations tend to work out in the Road-movies, soon Hope & Crosby end up in a hut with Dorothy Lamour, who wants to trick them but then falls for Bing Crosby, & Larsen's moll Kate (Hillary Brooke), also out for the second half of the map. Of course, the women succeed & our boys are left running from Sperry & MacGurk the next day without any half of the map. But Dorothy Lamour doesn't fare that much better, as she soon ends up locked up by Larsen, who doesn't need her anymore, & it's up to our boys to save not only themselves from a hanging commitee but also her from the evil clutches of Larsen. The do so by blowing up Larsen's place with Sperry & MacGurk inside & escaping with Lamour from the hanging commitee & Larsen's men. In the end though, they get seperated & Bob Hope (for a change) ends up with the girl while Bing Crosby promises to protect their rear. Here the narration stops inexplicably (but not unintended) to be picked up 35 years later when Crosby meets up again with Bob Hope & Dorothy Lamour (who have since married & have a son (Bing Crosby again, who, as Bob Hope points out "was adopted").

Robert Benchley does a pretty funny job as on-screen narrator, with comments such as "This scene was cut in after I've seen the picture so I don'T really know what's going on."

 

Fourth in the Hope-Crosby-&-Lamour Road-series, which are all consistently good (though none of them is a genuine masterpiece), & which work not so much because of their gags (let alone story or songs) but the great almost antagonistic chemistry between their leads, which does permeate the whole series.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Road to Utopia
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Road to Utopia here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Road to Utopia at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!