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Absolutely Fantastic

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Outrageous farce scripted in the exotic settings of exploding ships, journeys by foot and camel over endless sand dunes, and exotic bazaars and palaces, palace girls and sheiks. Most appropriate for kids and those who laugh easily, but I found much of the humor funny. Many consider this the best of the series. However, I find it difficult to single out one as better than the rest.There were a number of moderately good songs, mainly in the first half, perhaps to entice the viewers to expect more in the second half. Bing got 2 solos: "Ain't Got a Dime to my Name", and "Moonlight Becomes You", the latter the most popular song in the film. It was reprised in the second half, with stars Crosby, Bob Hope , and Dorothy Lamour, taking turns singing parts of it. Bing and Hope had an early duet while on camels : "We're off on the Road to Morocco". Dorothy got one solo in "Constantly". The tunes were composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Johnny Burke. Mostly Dorothy just lay around in opulent palace surroundings, promised to wed Sheik MulBay Kasim(Anthony Quinn), until she met these 2 former stowaways. Evidently, she strongly preferred an American husband, as did the palace girl Mihirmah(Dona Drake). Initially attracted to Hope, Dorothy soon changed her mind when she overheard Bing serenading her with "Moonlight Becomes You". This opened the door for Mihirmah throwing herself at Hope.Actually , Dorothy's young ambition was to be a band and radio singer, rather than actress, which she accomplished. Her best received early films were those in she played an exotic woman, such as "jungle girl", even though she doesn't look exotic to me. In contrast, Dona Drake, who played Mihirmah looked ethnic, perhaps Polynesian. She also was mainly a band singer in her early career and was friends with Dorothy, who pressured Paramount to sign her. However, she soon decided she was better off free lancing.I don't understand why Hope went in the "powder room" to smoke, hence causing the ships in the beginning and ending to blow up? Why wasn't he killed or at least maimed in the explosions??Incidentally, the 2-humped Bactrian camels shown wouldn't likely be in Morocco. They are best adapted to north central and east Asia, with fierce winters.

Hope and Crosby are two childhood fighting pals, first on a raft at sea, then reaching a desert shore. A camel finds them and they ride to Morocco. With no money, Crosby sells Hope into slavery (without the latter's knowledge), only to find him with the local princess, who he now wants for herself. Rivalry and treachery ensue.Yes, the movie is old, silly escapist entertainment for a worried wartime audience, but still works today thanks to broad if crazy humor and great performances by the leads, who also take jibes at their employers and government censors without overdoing it. Classic songs also make the experience enjoyable.

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.Bosley Crowther liked it: "Let us be thankful that Paramount is still blessed with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and that it has set its cameras to tailing these two irrepressible wags on another fantastic excursion, Road to Morocco, which came to the Paramount yesterday. For the screen, under present circumstances, can hold no more diverting lure than the prospect of Hope and Crosby ambling, as they have done before, through an utterly slaphappy picture, picking up Dorothy Lamour along the way and tossing acid wisecracks at each other without a thought for reason or sense...The short of it is that Road to Morocco is a daffy, laugh-drafting film. And you'll certainly agree with the camel which, at one point, offers the gratuitous remark, "This is the screwiest picture I was ever in." The camel remark is pretty funny, and the movie as a whole is quite a treat. I can't say I'm a big Bob Hope fan, but I love Bing Crosby, and together they make quite a pair. This isn't laugh-out-loud funny but it has a very vaudeville-ish sense to it, where the routines are so hackneyed and cliché, but you can't help but appreciate them.

Typical Hope and Crosby nonsense. More of a "big budget home movie" than anything else, but funny and enjoyable anyhow.By the Time "Morocco" was created, the Road Pictures had been embraced and enjoyed and the formula was set in stone: An exotic locale, Dorothy Lamour, a couple of songs and go easy on the script because Bob and Bing are gonna "jab-lib" their way through it regardless. The result here is a slick and entertaining yarn about absolutely nothing. Don't let the current climate of "Islam/Arab/Terrorism" mindset disturb you about the on screen antics because this was filmed in a different era and has nothing to do with the goings on in our world today.Bing gets a chance to croon the very lovely Moonlight Becomes You, which to this day is still one of the most touching love songs ever written; Bob gets to do his "screen persona schtick" and it is hilarious; Dorothy has a forgettable song and a funny reprise of Moonlight Becomes You, sung in the desert accompanied by the boys and it is extremely funny. Anthony Quinn (who was a Road Picture Regular) returns in a typical villain role in which he does his best.A couple of notes. Early in the picture Bob and Bing get involved with a camel who licks them. At the end of this routine as they prepare to ride away on the beast it spits at Bob. This was NOT in the script. The camel ad-libbed and the reactions of both Hope and Crosby are genuine. The director liked the take so much he used it in the final cut. Secondly, it took forever for the boys to sing the theme song, The Road to Morocco. It seems that every time they got to the lyric " . . . like Webster's Dictionary we're Morocco bound. . . " they'd break up over that lyric and would have to re-shoot the song.It's a breezy, light-weight, fun evening with Der Bingle and Old Slope Nose. Make yourself a bowl of popcorn, grab a large soda and laugh away for 82 minutes. It'll do you good!