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Road to Zanzibar
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| Road to Zanzibar | |
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 1941 movie poster |
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| Directed by | Victor Schertzinger |
| Produced by | Paul Jones |
| Written by | Frank Butler & Don Hartman from a story by Sy Bartlett & Frank Butler |
| Starring | Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Una Merkel |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 11, 1941 |
| Running time | 91 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Road to Singapore |
| Followed by | Road to Morocco |
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Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to..." series made by the trio.
Paramount executives owned the rights to a story by Sy Bartlett entitled "Find Colonel Fawcett" about two men trekking through the jungles of Madagascar. They felt that its plot was so similar to the recently released Stanley and Livingstone that it could not be made as written without seeming too derivative, so they turned the project over to Frank Butler and Don Hartman, the writers on the wildly successful Road to Singapore which Paramount had released the year before. Thus reborn as a comedy, the film resembled its predecessor in every important way, with plot taking a back seat to gags (many of them ad libbed), and music. The film was so successful that further "Road" pictures were assured.
- "You Lucky People, You"
- Lyrics by Johnny Burke - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
- Performed by Bing Crosby
- "African Etude / Road To Zanzibar"
- Lyrics by Johnny Burke - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
- Performed by Bing Crosby and Chorus while on safari
- "You're Dangerous"
- Lyrics by Johnny Burke - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
- Performed by Dorothy Lamour
- "It's Always You"
- Lyrics by Johnny Burke - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
- Performed by Bing Crosby
Strait, Raymond, Bob Hope: A Tribute. New York:Pinnacle Books, 2003.
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