USA, 1941
91m, 2578.61 metres, 9 reel
35mm film, black and white, 1.37:1
mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording), English
An American comedy film with fantasy sequences directed by Victor Schertzinger.
Plot Summary
Chuck and Fearless are forced to flee a South African carnival when their sideshow catches fire. They finally save enough money to work their passage back to the States but Chuck spends it all on a supposedly “lost” diamond mine. And that’s just the start of their problems…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Victor Schertzinger
Copyright MCMXLI [1941] by Paramount Pictures Inc
A Paramount picture. Paramount presents
Produced by: Paul Jones Screen
Play by: Frank Butler, Don Hartman
Based on a Story [Find Colonel Fawcett] by: Don Hartman, Sy Bartlett
Director of Photography: Ted Tetzlaff
Editor: Alma Macrorie
Musical Direction: Victor Young
Music Advisor: Arthur Franklin
Lyrics by: Johnny Burke
Music by: Jimmy Van Heusen
Sound Recording: Earl Hayman, Don Johnson
Costumes: Edith Head
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher
Musical Numbers Staged by: LeRoy Prinz
Locations: Imperial County, California, USA
Cast
Bing Crosby (Chuck Reardon)
Bob Hope (Fearless Frazier)
Dorothy Lamour (Donna Latour)
Una Merkel (Julia Quimby)
Eric Blore (Charles Kimble)
Douglass Dumbrille (slave trader)
Iris Adrian (French soubrette in cafe)
Lionel Royce (Monsieur Lebec)
Buck Woods (Thonga)
Leigh Whipper (Scarface)
Ernest Whitman (Whiteface)
Noble Johnson (chief)
Joan Marsh (Dimples)
Luis Alberni (native booth proprietor)
Robert Middlemass (police inspector)
Alternative Titles
2 iloista merimiestä Afrikassa – Finland
Avventura a Zanzibar – Italy
En route pour Zanzibar – France
A Tentação de Zanzibar – Brazil
Två glada sjömän i Afrika – Sweden
Der Weg nach Sansibar – Austria, West Germany
Links
Sequel to
Road to Singapore (1940)
Sequels
Road to Morocco (1942)
Road to Utopia (1946)
Road to Rio (1947)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
References
Periodicals
- Harrison’s Reports 22 March 1941 p.47 – review
Books
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.405-406 – credits
