Road to Utopia

US (1946): Comedy/Musical

The fourth "Road" movie, and one of the most gag-filled, opens with old married couple Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour comfortable in their mansion reminiscing about their past in the Yukon gold country. Vaudevillians, Hope and Bing Crosby, escape San Francisco on a steamer heading north, impersonating vicious killers and with a stolen mine deed in their pockets. Lamour, the daughter of the rightful owner and a dance-hall singer, woos both to get her hands on the deed. Hope gets the girl, but their child looks like Bing! Humorist Robert Benchley narrates. The closing gag is considered one of the funniest end-games in American comedy, perhaps equalled only in 1959 by Some Like It Hot's "Nobody's perfect." Hal Walker directs for Paramount. (amctv.com)

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