Road to Zanzibar
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven picture in the popular Road to series made by the trio.
The film starts with conartist Chuck Reardon Bing Crosby as a sideshow caller at a circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert Fearless Frazier Bob Hope, as a human cannonball, with Fearless quickly substituting a dummy at the last minute and hiding in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and everyone into a panic and the two of them flee. Their subsequent acts show Fearless doing more dangerous acts, usually getting injured. When Chuck brings the next great idea, wrestling a live octopus, Fearless finally balks and wants to go back to the states. At a fancy restaurant, theyre sent champagne by a wealthy man, diamond baron Charles Kimble Eric Blore. The festive mood turns sour when the police show up, but Kimble bails them out. They decide to go home to the United States, but when Chuck goes to get the tickets Kimble invites him onto his yacht for a drink.Fearless is busy packing and when Chuck comes back, he finds out Chuck spent all their money, five thousand, on the deed for one of Kimbles diamond mines. It seems like a good deal, until they find out Kimble is an eccentric who would sign over anything and the deed is worthless. Furious at Chuck losing all their money, Fearless ends their partnership. ........
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