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Road to Bali is a 1952
1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 starring Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
, Bob Hope
Bob Hope

Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
 and Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
. It was released by Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 and is the sixth of the seven Road to...
Road to...

Road to... refers to a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as "Road pictures." The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music....
 movies. It was the only such movie filmed in color and was the first to feature surprise cameo appearance
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
s from other well-known stars of the day.
ng to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign-on to work as divers.






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Road to Bali is a 1952
1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
 comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 starring Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
, Bob Hope
Bob Hope

Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
 and Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
. It was released by Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
 and is the sixth of the seven Road to...
Road to...

Road to... refers to a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as "Road pictures." The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music....
 movies. It was the only such movie filmed in color and was the first to feature surprise cameo appearance
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
s from other well-known stars of the day.

Plot

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign-on to work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Cast

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     as George Cochran
  • Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     as Harold Gridley
  • Dorothy Lamour
    Dorothy Lamour

    Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
     as Princess Lalah McIntovish
  • Murvyn Vye as Ken Arok
  • Peter Coe
    Peter Coe

    Percy Newbold 'Peter' Coe was the father and Athletics coach to Sebastian Coe. As an engineer he found athletics coaching offered to his son 'all tales, nothing seemed coherent' , and was determined to apply his expertise to this field systematically....
     as Gung
  • Ralph Moody
    Ralph Moody

    Ralph Moody was a NASCAR early driver, but became most famous as team co-owner of Holman Moody....
     as Bhoma Da
  • Leon Askin
    Leon Askin

    Leon Askin was an Austrian actor.Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine and Samuel Aschkenazy....
     as King Ramayana

Cameos
Among the celebrities who made token "gag" appearances in this film are bandleader Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby

Bob Crosby was an United States dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats.He was the youngest of seven children: five boys, Larry Crosby , Everett , Ted , Bing Crosby and Bob; and two girls, Catherine and Mary Rose ....
 (Bing's brother), Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
, by way of a clip from The African Queen
The African Queen

The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....
, Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
, Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
, and Jane Russell
Jane Russell

Jane Russell is an American film actress and sex symbol....
, as her character from the film Son of Paleface
Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface , is a Western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L....
. The cameo by Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis were an United States of America comedy team, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis. The pair first met in 1944; their debut as a duo occurred at Atlantic City, New Jersey's 500 Club on July 24/25, 1946....
 were part of a 'comedy trade' where they made an appearance in this movie, while Hope and Crosby appeared in Martin and Lewis's Scared Stiff
Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff is a 1953 comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis. The musical comedy was released on April 27, 1953 by Paramount Pictures and directed by George Marshall ....
 the following year. Martin and Lewis also made films for Paramount at the time.

Songs

  • "Chicago Style" - performed by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
  • "Moonflowers" - by Dorothy Lamour
  • "Hoot Mon" - Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
  • "To See You Is To Love You" - Bing Crosby
  • "The Merry-Go-Run-Around" - Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby


Music for all songs is by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Johnny Burke
Johnny Burke (lyricist)

Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s....
.

Release

Due to irregularities with its copyright
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
, Road to Bali has lapsed into the public domain
Public domain

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. Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television

Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974....
 once had the television rights to this film in the 1980s, along with other Bob Hope movies from the 1940s and 1950s. This is evident in a home video release from the mid-1990's, where a CPT logo can be seen at the beginning and end of the film.

Because the film is in the public domain, there have been at least a dozen DVD releases from a variety of companies over the years.

In popular culture

Road to Bali was parodied in in Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures

This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures, the main film production company/distribution company arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.List of films...
' animated short Alley to Bali
Alley to Bali

Alley to Bali is the 53rd animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on March 15, 1954, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Studios....
, with Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
 and Buzz Buzzard in the Hope and Crosby roles.

Miscellany

In keeping with the film's Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states....
 setting, which takes Crosby and Hope from Melbourne, Australia, to the exotic island of Bali
Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 Provinces of Indonesia with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island....
, many of the jokes contain references to Argyle socks, Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, Tasmania
Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
n-born Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
, and a dance routine featuring Scottish
Scotland

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 bagpipes
Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reed fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian...
.

As with the other Road movies, Bob Hope breaks the "fourth wall
Fourth wall

The fourth wall is an element of fiction. Originally, the term referred to the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the Play ....
" several times to make side comments to the audience, for example, as the music for a song sung by Bing Crosby begins, "He's gonna sing, folks. Now's the time to go out and get the popcorn."

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