Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/05/2002
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Excellent For Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
The first "
Road" picture in three years (the last was
The Road to Morocco),
Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold rush.
Bob Hope and
Bing Crosby play a pair of third-rate San Francisco entertainers,
Chester Hooton and
Duke Johnson, who are obliged to skip town in a hurry. They book passage on a ship to Alaska, where they run afoul of escaped murderers
Sperry (
Robert H. Barrat) and
McGurk (
Nestor Paiva). Through a fluke,
Chester and
Duke overpower the killers, then get off the ship in Skagway disguised as
Sperry and
McGurk so that they themselves can evade the authorities. The boys can't understand why everyone is so afraid of them, nor why saloon owner
Ace Larson (
Douglas Dumbrille) and
Larson's moll
Kate (
Hillary Brooke) are so chummy. It turns out that
Sperry and
McGurk had stolen a deed to a valuable gold mine before escaping to Alaska.
Sal Van Hoyden (
Dorothy Lamour) is the rightful owner of that deed, thus she too shows up in Skagway, hoping to extract the document from
Chester and
Duke. Whenever the plot threatens to become too difficult to follow, narrator
Robert Benchley shows up to explain things -- which of course only adds to the confusion. At any rate, the whole affair ends up with
Chester,
Duke, and
Sal running through the snowy wastes, with the villains in hot pursuit.
Duke nobly stays behind to fight off the bad guys himself, handing the deed to
Chester and
Sal and wishing them Godspeed. Flash-forward to 1945:
Chester and
Sal, both old and wealthy, are reunited with their equally aged pal
Duke, who wasn't killed after all.
Sal tells
Duke that
Chester has been a wonderful husband and father. Yes, father...and wait till you see who plays their child ("We adopted him!").
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Frosty Snowbound Comedy.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's fourth entry in their famous "Road" picture series is set in Turn-of-the-Century Alaska in which they play two Vaudevillains, who impersonate two Alaskan killers as they help Dorothy Lamour as a beautiful saloon singer locate an Alaskan gold mine she inherited. Also starring Douglass Dumbrille, Hillary Brooke, Jack La Rue, Robert Barrat, Nestor Paiva, Robert Benchley, Will Wright, and Stanley Andrews.
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