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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Bob_Hope_and_Bing_Crosby_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg/330px-Bob_Hope_and_Bing_Crosby_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Bob_Hope_and_Bing_Crosby_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg/440px-Bob_Hope_and_Bing_Crosby_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1284" data-file-height="1437" /></a><figcaption>Hope and Crosby sing and dance during "Chicago Style" in <i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Bali" title="Road to Bali">Road to Bali</a></i> (1952)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dorothy_Lamour,_Bing_Crosby,_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg/220px-Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg/330px-Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg/440px-Dorothy_Lamour%2C_Bing_Crosby%2C_Jane_Russell_and_Bob_Hope_in_Road_to_Bali.jpg 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="455" /></a><figcaption>With <a href="/wiki/Jane_Russell" title="Jane Russell">Jane Russell</a> in <i>Road to Bali</i></figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Road to ...</b></i> is a series of seven comedy films starring <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Lamour" title="Dorothy Lamour">Dorothy Lamour</a>. They are also often referred to as the <b>"<i>Road</i>" pictures</b> or the <b>"<i>Road</i>" series</b>. The movies were a combination of adventure, comedy, romance, and music. The minimal plot often took a back seat to gags, which appeared improvised but were usually scripted.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films_in_the_series">Films in the series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Films in the series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Singapore" title="Road to Singapore">Road to Singapore</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Zanzibar" title="Road to Zanzibar">Road to Zanzibar</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Morocco" title="Road to Morocco">Road to Morocco</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Utopia" title="Road to Utopia">Road to Utopia</a></i> (made in 1943, but not released until 1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Rio" title="Road to Rio">Road to Rio</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Bali" title="Road to Bali">Road to Bali</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Hong_Kong" title="The Road to Hong Kong">The Road to Hong Kong</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i>Road to the Fountain of Youth</i> (canceled)</li></ul> <p>Each film is not simply a comedy, but a satire of some of the popular film genres of the day, including jungle, Arabian nights, Alaskan adventure and high seas. </p><p>In 1977, an eighth <i>Road to...</i> movie was planned, titled <i>Road to the <a href="/wiki/Fountain_of_Youth" title="Fountain of Youth">Fountain of Youth</a></i>, but Crosby died that year of a heart attack.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1947, <a href="/wiki/Astor_Pictures" title="Astor Pictures">Astor Pictures</a> released a compilation film of several of Crosby's <a href="/wiki/Educational_Pictures" title="Educational Pictures">Educational Pictures</a> <a href="/wiki/Short_subject" class="mw-redirect" title="Short subject">short subjects</a> called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Hollywood" title="The Road to Hollywood">The Road to Hollywood</a></i> to evoke the series. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> also commissioned Hope and Crosby to produce the 1945 short film <i>Road to Home</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Running_gags">Running gags</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Running gags"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Original_research plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Original_research" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>possibly contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">original research</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit">improve it</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifying</a> the claims made and adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a>. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Singapore" title="Road to Singapore">Road to Singapore</a></i> the films also included <a href="/wiki/In-joke" title="In-joke">in-joke</a> references to other Hollywood actors and jabs at <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>, the studio that released all the films except for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Hong_Kong" title="The Road to Hong Kong">The Road to Hong Kong</a></i>. There are also frequent instances in which Bob Hope breaks the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_wall" title="Fourth wall">fourth wall</a> to address the audience directly, such as in <i><a href="/wiki/Road_to_Bali" title="Road to Bali">Road to Bali</a></i>, in which he says, "[Crosby]'s gonna sing, folks. Now's the time to go out and get the popcorn."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hope and Crosby would usually play some form of <a href="/wiki/Confidence_trick" class="mw-redirect" title="Confidence trick">confidence men</a> trying to make a lot of money, with Bing coming up with the ideas and Bob usually doing most of the dirty work.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another common set-piece in the films is a monologue by Crosby "telling it like it is" to the Dorothy Lamour character, only to fall into traditional Crosby-singing-a-ballad; an example from <i>The Road to Rio</i> (1947) features the Crosby character analyzing the true love-encounters of a (fictional) film scene, followed by his singing "<a href="/wiki/But_Beautiful_(song)" title="But Beautiful (song)">But Beautiful</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Heusen" title="Jimmy Van Heusen">Jimmy Van Heusen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Burke_(lyricist)" title="Johnny Burke (lyricist)">Johnny Burke</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When confronted by the villain, Hope and Crosby would use a "patty cake" routine before throwing punches, though this would sometimes not work, as in <i>Road to Morocco</i>: "That gag sure gets around, huh?" "Yeah, right back to US!" The only film in the series in which the routine was not used was in <i>Road to Utopia</i>. </p><p>Both characters would usually promise to not allow women to interfere with their plans, and both would immediately see a woman and forget that promise. Crosby would almost always end up with her, with the exceptions being in <i>Road to Utopia</i> and <i>Road to Rio</i> (although hypnosis was involved in the latter case). </p><p>Hope's character usually would have a nickname with which he would be referred to throughout the film, as in <i>Road to Morocco</i>, when he was called "Turkey", and <i>Road to Zanzibar</i>, in which he was called "Fearless". </p><p>Crosby credited writer Barney Dean with standing off-camera and continuously coming up with jokes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hope would also break the fourth wall continuously to over-act, often with an upbraiding from Crosby. Hope would then blame his overacting on his attempt to win an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Oscar</a>. In reality, Hope never won any Oscar for his work, although he did receive honorary Oscars. Later, when Hope was a regular Oscar host, he incorporated his "<a href="/wiki/Oscar_bait" title="Oscar bait">Oscar bait</a>" whines into his monologues there. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center"> <caption>Box office performance for the <i>Road to...</i> films </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Film </th> <th scope="col">U.S. release date </th> <th scope="col">US/Canada <a href="/wiki/Theatrical_rental" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatrical rental">theatrical rental</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Singapore</i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001940-03-14-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">March 14, 1940</span> </td> <td>$1,600,000<sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_Worldwide"><a href="#endnote_Worldwide">*</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Zanzibar</i> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001941-04-11-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">April 11, 1941</span> </td> <td>TBD </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Morocco</i><sup id="cite_ref-rentals_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rentals-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001942-11-10-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">November 10, 1942</span> </td> <td>$3,800,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Utopia</i><sup id="cite_ref-rentals_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rentals-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001946-02-27-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">February 27, 1946</span> </td> <td>$4,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Rio</i><sup id="cite_ref-rentals_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rentals-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001947-12-25-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">December 25, 1947</span> </td> <td>$4,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Road to Bali</i><sup id="cite_ref-rentals_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rentals-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001952-12-25-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">December 25, 1952</span> </td> <td>$3,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>The Road to Hong Kong</i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001962-05-23-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">May 23, 1962</span> </td> <td>$2,600,000 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Total </th> <th>$20,000,000 </th></tr> </tbody></table> <p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Worldwide"><sup>*</sup>Worldwide <a href="/wiki/Theatrical_rental" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatrical rental">theatrical rental</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Homages_and_other_influence">Homages and other influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Homages and other influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The 1944 <a href="/wiki/Famous_Studios" title="Famous Studios">Famous Studios</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Popeye_the_Sailor_(film_series)" title="Popeye the Sailor (film series)">Popeye</a></i> cartoon <i>We're On Our Way to Rio</i> is a parody of these films.</li> <li>The April 20, 1966 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Make_Room_for_Daddy" class="mw-redirect" title="Make Room for Daddy">The Danny Thomas Show</a></i>, titled "The Road to Lebanon," featured Bing Crosby scouting locations in Beirut for a new Road picture without Bob Hope.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 1981 Mel Brooks film <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_World,_Part_I" title="History of the World, Part I">History of the World, Part I</a></i>, on escaping from the Romans, Brooks and co-star Gregory Hines parody the series' "We're off on the road to..." signature song by singing "We're off on the road to Judea, we certainly do get around..."</li> <li>The 1985 film <i><a href="/wiki/Spies_Like_Us" title="Spies Like Us">Spies Like Us</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Dan_Aykroyd" title="Dan Aykroyd">Dan Aykroyd</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chevy_Chase" title="Chevy Chase">Chevy Chase</a>, is an homage to the films; Hope makes a cameo as himself in one scene. The phrase "Road to <a href="/wiki/Dushanbe" title="Dushanbe">Dushanbe</a>" is uttered several times throughout the movie. <a href="/wiki/Dushanbe" title="Dushanbe">Dushanbe</a> is near the ultimate destination of the protagonists.</li> <li>The 1987 film <i><a href="/wiki/Ishtar_(film)" title="Ishtar (film)">Ishtar</a></i> was envisioned by writer/director <a href="/wiki/Elaine_May" title="Elaine May">Elaine May</a> as an homage to the "Road" series.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The 1990 <a href="/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants" title="They Might Be Giants">They Might Be Giants</a> song "Road Movie to Berlin" references the films in its title.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/TaleSpin" title="TaleSpin">TaleSpin</a></i> episode "Road to Macadamia" pays tribute to the series, including spoofs on the songs.</li> <li>Three episodes of the 1991–1995 animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Taz-Mania" title="Taz-Mania">Taz-Mania</a></i> spoofed the <i>Road to..</i> movies, starring Hugh Tasmanian Devil, Taz's father and a Crosby parody. Taz's uncle Drew would later be introduced, naturally parodying Hope. They featured in the episodes "Road to Taz-Mania," "Return of the Road to Taz-Mania Strikes Back" and "Yet Another Road to Taz-Mania."</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Duckman" title="Duckman">Duckman</a></i> episode "Road to Dendron" spoofs the series.</li> <li>The 2000 animated film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_El_Dorado" title="The Road to El Dorado">The Road to El Dorado</a></i> is an homage to the Road movies and contains many popular beats, including creating a distraction before fighting an opponent.</li> <li>In the 2001–2003 Disney animated series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Tarzan_(TV_series)" title="The Legend of Tarzan (TV series)">The Legend of Tarzan</a></i>, the characters Hugo and Hooft are loosely based on Hope and Crosby (though not in appearance).</li> <li>The animated TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a></i> has had eight "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_..._(Family_Guy)" title="Road to ... (Family Guy)">Road to ...</a>" episodes that <a href="/wiki/Parody" title="Parody">spoof</a> the original Road pictures, starring <a href="/wiki/Brian_Griffin" title="Brian Griffin">Brian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stewie_Griffin" title="Stewie Griffin">Stewie Griffin</a>: "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_Rhode_Island" title="Road to Rhode Island">Road to Rhode Island</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_Europe" title="Road to Europe">Road to Europe</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_Rupert" title="Road to Rupert">Road to Rupert</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_Germany" title="Road to Germany">Road to Germany</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_the_Multiverse" title="Road to the Multiverse">Road to the Multiverse</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_the_North_Pole" title="Road to the North Pole">Road to the North Pole</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Roads_to_Vegas" title="Roads to Vegas">Roads to Vegas</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Road_to_India_(Family_Guy)" title="Road to India (Family Guy)">Road to India</a>". In addition, the series' 2009 episode "<a href="/wiki/Spies_Reminiscent_of_Us" title="Spies Reminiscent of Us">Spies Reminiscent of Us</a>" is an homage to <i>Spies Like Us</i>, even guest starring Aykroyd and Chase, which in turn was based on the "Road" films.</li> <li>The television series <i><a href="/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_is_Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic">My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_(season_8)#Episodes" class="mw-redirect" title="My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 8)">Road to Friendship</a>" from September 1, 2018, was paying homage to these films with the episode title and a song by the same name.</li> <li>In the 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Idle" title="Eric Idle">Eric Idle</a> wanted to make a film called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Mars" title="The Road to Mars">The Road to Mars</a></i>, but became so frustrated by executive meddling at Hollywood studios that he wrote it as a <a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Mars" title="The Road to Mars">novel</a> instead.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Road_to_...&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780316091565" title="Special:BookSources/9780316091565">9780316091565</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://h2g2.com/A2622809">"The 'Road...' Films of Hope, Crosby and Lamour"</a>. <a href="/wiki/H2g2" title="H2g2">h2g2</a>. 2004-10-09<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-10-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+%27Road...%27+Films+of+Hope%2C+Crosby+and+Lamour&rft.pub=h2g2&rft.date=2004-10-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fh2g2.com%2FA2622809&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoad+to+..." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/RoadToHome">Road to Home</a></i> is available for free viewing and download at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wes D. Gehring, "Hope & Crosby: <i>Road to Bali</i> (1953), in <i>Movie Comedians of the 1950s: Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy</i> (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2016), 72–83; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1476626928" title="Special:BookSources/1476626928">1476626928</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">One example, from <i>The Road to Rio</i> (1947), involves getting $200 to ride a bicycle across a wire; indeed, the Crosby character makes the deal and the Hope character does the deed; or, rather, half of it: Hope appears to cross halfway, before accidentally setting the circus on fire, at which point Crosby bounces Hope into a waiting wagon with horses, to make their escape to the cruise boat which takes them to Rio de Janeiro.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Analyzed in detail by Steven Cohan, "Almost Like Being at Home: Showbiz Culture and Hollywood Road Trips in the 1940s and 1950s", in Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, eds., <i>The Road Movie Book</i> (London: Routledge, 1997), 113–42. (119–22) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781134824366" title="Special:BookSources/9781134824366">9781134824366</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGilliland1971" class="citation web cs1">Gilliland, John (July 8, 1971). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692055/m1/">"Pop Chronicles Interviews #133 – Bing Crosby"</a>. <i>UNT Digital Library</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=UNT+Digital+Library&rft.atitle=Pop+Chronicles+Interviews+%23133+%E2%80%93+Bing+Crosby&rft.date=1971-07-08&rft.aulast=Gilliland&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.library.unt.edu%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetadc1692055%2Fm1%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoad+to+..." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878">"Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Argus_(Melbourne)" title="The Argus (Melbourne)">The Argus</a></i>. Melbourne. 4 March 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"All-Time Film Rental Champs". <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>. p. M182.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=All-Time+Film+Rental+Champs&rft.pages=M182&rft.date=1990-10-15&rft.aulast=Cohn&rft.aufirst=Lawrence&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoad+to+..." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1">"Big Rental Pictures of 1962". <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>. 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