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- 1946
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1946
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Directed By: Hal Walker
Written By: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
- 1946
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1946
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Road to Utopia
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Summary Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Directed By: Hal Walker
Written By: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Hope and Crosby accomplished a rare thing, an ad-libbed, brilliantly performed surrealistic romp through the fourth wall of studio convention. Their comic timing has to be seen to be believed, and Road to Utopia is the place to go to be converted.
A blizzard of fractious sport and clowning, a whirlwind of gags and travesty, a snowdrift of suffocating nonsense.
Once again, animals talk, sight gags abound, and the complementing temperaments of Hope and Crosby are mined to great advantage.
It's one of the most consistently funny films in the “Road” series, though by this late point (1945) the manic unpredictability of the early films has settled slightly into formula.
Technically picture leaves nothing to be desired. Paul Jones, producer, and Hal Walker, who directed, make a fine combination in steering and in the production value provided.
A typical Road movie (Utopia being Alaska), this has Lamour oscillating between Bob and Bing for possession of both halves of the map to her goldmine. But kiss-kiss and moonlight serenading aside, it's always the quipping rivalry of the duo that rules.
Perhaps the farthest out of the Bob Hope--Bing Crosby road pictures. Some of the patter is pure, relaxed craziness, but the topical jokes and the awful quips keep pulling it down.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures
Release Date Mar 22, 1946
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Approved
Tagline IT'S A SLEIGH RIDE OF HILARITY...WITH BING, BOB & DOTTY! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Tower Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - September 6, 1946 - all caps)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
