ROAD TO MOROCCO

'''Road to Morocco''' is a 1942 comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. It is the third of the "''Road to...''" movies and stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake.
The movie was written by Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by David Butler for Paramount Pictures.
It received Academy Award nomimations for Best Sound, Recording and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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Songs

Cultural references

Trivia

References

Songs

★ '"(We're off on the) Road to Morocco"', performed by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

★ '"Ain't Got a Dime to My Name"', by Bing Crosby

★ '"Constantly"', Dorothy Lamour

★ '"Moonlight Becomes You"', Bing Crosby
All lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by James Van Heusen.

Cultural references

In 1982, a movie poster for this movie appeared in the background of a panel on the first page of V for Vendetta.
The TV series ''Duckman'' referenced this movie in the episode Road to Dendron in title and song, also borrowing and referencing jokes of the original.
The TV series ''Family Guy'' referenced this movie in the episode "Road to Rhode Island", in both the title and its song, "We're off on the road to Rhode Island."
Family Guy make another parody in the title of the episodes "Road to Europe" and "Road to Rupert"
In Mel Brooks's History of the World Part I, the characters sing a short parody of "Road to Morocco", singing "We're off on the road to Judea..."

Trivia

At one point in the film Hope and Crosby encounter a camel (seen also on the poster above). This is a Bactrian camel, but the camels in Morocco are Arabian camels.
When one of them gets spit on by the aforementioned camel, this was not in the script. The gentleman in question had not paid attention to the keeper's instructions and the camel spat in his face. It was true to the nature of the film ergo it was kept.

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