Road To Bali (DVD)

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Reviewed by Micky B - 13 June 2007

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour made seven “road” pictures together, though ROAD TO BALI was the only one to be filmed in Technicolor. Bing and Bob are two wisecracking ne’r-do-well Americans who find themselves “down under” in Australia. To avoid impeding though unwanted matrimony, they make good their escape: firstly by train, then by way of a sheep farm…where they see three such animals, each of a different vivid colour. (“For Argyll socks!” explains Bing.) Each then signs the other up as a deep-sea diver to recover sunken treasure off a tropical island – on which they encounter Princess Dorothy Lamour! She, in turn, has an ambitious and unscrupulous cousin – and in order to elude him and his thugs, the trio has to endure mean encounters with a giant squid; crocodiles; gorillas; a tiger; a tribe of head-hunters, and the island’s very active live volcano – before peace is restored, and Bing and Dorothy saunter off down the beach arm-in-arm together…while Bob desperately tries to prevent the words “The End” from appearing on the screen! This 1950s comedy is great fun for all ages. Watch for brief cameo appearances by Humphrey Bogart, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Jane Russell and others.