1h 22min || 10 November 1942
Director: David Butler
Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, Dona Drake.
Paul Oscard ... dances stager
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Home to my favorite of the Road songs, primarily for the references to Morocco leather-bound books. Also here: Moonlight Becomes You and 2 more songs. We get harem-girls dancing, and a specialty with sword-dancers.
Dona Drake neither sings nor dances, but energetically pursues BH for romance. AQ is appropriately menacing as the leader of a tribe that violently robs others, and yet he is to marry the princess. The boys do the patty-cake for him.
It's fun and frothy, with very pretty clothes and sets, songs and dance, and no real reference to the war. (They are adrift at the beginning of the film because BH had entered a Powder Room with a lit cigarette, and the ship blew up.)
Paramount, dir. Butler; 7-
