Road to Morocco
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This is the screwiest picture I was ever in.
—one of the camels
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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope reprise their earlier success with the third in their series of "Road To" pictures. In Road to Morocco, the hapless duo are castaways on a desert shore where they employ snappy dialog, asides to the camera, and a little song and dance as they woo Dorothy Lamour across the dunes, but not before encountering a spitting camel.
Road to Morocco was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.
Tropes used in Road to Morocco include:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Hope's character gets his hands on a magic ring.
- Book Ends: The movie starts and ends with the boys adrift at sea.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Too many to list them all.
- At one point, they need to disguise themselves as locals, and Hope says something about, "No problem; Special Effects will take care of it." Then he calls out, "Hey, Special Effects!" and their clothing is immediately transformed into local garb.
- From the song "Road to Morocco":
For any villains we may meet |
- After Bob's recap exposition:
Bing: "I know all that!" |
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: The entire picture, which was released just days after Allied troops invaded North Africa. That didn't stop it from being the fourth-highest-grossing picture of 1942, though.
- Incredibly Lame Pun
"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound" |
- Oscar Bait: Lampshaded and spoofed, to the point that an exchange from the movie serves as the page quote for Academy Award.
- Award Bait Song: "Moonlight Becomes You". It has its own page on The Other Wiki.
- Throw It In: The spitting camel scene.
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