ROAD TO UTOPIA

'''Road to Utopia''', filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, is the only ''Road to...'' film without a real place in its title. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour starred, as they did in all but one of the series. As a “narrator”, humor essayist Robert Benchley provides some wry commentary that is interspersed throughout the movie. There are also jabs at Paramount Pictures (the studio that originally released the film) and a reference to Frank Sinatra, not to mention many instances of "breaking the fourth wall" and general wackiness.

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Plot summary

Songs

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Plot summary

At the turn of the century, Duke Johnson (Bing Crosby) and Chester Hooton (Bob Hope), two vaudeville performers, go to Alaska to make their fortune in the gold rush. On the ship to Skagway, they find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been stolen by McGurk (Nestor Paiva) and Sperry (Robert Barrat), a couple of thugs.
Meanwhile, Sal Van Hoyden (Dorothy Lamour) is in Alaska to try and recover the map; it had been her father's. She falls in with Ace Larson (Douglass Dumbrille), who wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke and Chester, McGurk and Sperry, Ace and his henchmen, and Sal, chase each other all over the countryside, trying to get the map and the gold.

Songs

★ '"Good Time Charlie"', performed by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

★ '"It's Anybody's Spring"', by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

★ '"Personality"', Dorothy Lamour

★ '"Welcome to My Dream"', Bing Crosby

★ '"Put It There, Pal"', Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

★ '"Would You?"', Dorothy Lamour
All lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

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