Road to Utopia (1946)
Directed by Hal Walker (Souls at Sea (1937)), and written by Norman Panama & Melvin Frank (who earned an Oscar nomination for their Original Screenplay), this typical (Bob) Hope & (Bing) Crosby ‘road’ comedy naturally also features Dorothy Lamour. This time, the trio are in Alaska with a map to a gold mine. The map had been stolen from Lamour’s father (Will Wright, uncredited) by Sperry (Robert Barrat) & McGurk (Nestor Paiva), two well known thugs from the region. Hope & Crosby impersonate the two but are eventually found out by crooked business owner Ace Larson (Douglas Dumbrille), who uses his employees (Hillary Brooke & Jack La Rue) to get the map from the boys while he cons Lamour into thinking he's helping her. Filled with inside jokes, asides to the camera (e.g. the audience), and even talking animals, it provides light entertainment for an hour and a half. Robert Benchley appears at the beginning, and throughout the film, with sidebar narration.
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