Road to Singapore is a 1940 Paramount Pictures film starring Bing
Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope, which marked the debut of the
long-running and popular "Road to..." series of pictures starring
the trio.
According to Hope biographer Raymond Strait, the project which
became Road to Singapore was first offered to Fred MacMurray and
Jack Oakie, and after they declined, to George Burns and Gracie
Allen, with a second male lead to be determined. They also
declined. (Burns is quoted as saying that Gracie "thought the whole
thing was silly.") At this point, Paramount decided to pair Hope
and Crosby, and to take advantage of the screen popularity of
Lamour, who had already made several lucrative pictures with a
"South Seas" theme.
Although the Road to Singapore script was written by established
filmwriters Frank Butler and Don Hartman and the film was directed
by Victor Schertzinger, much of the action on the screen consists
of material ad libbed by Hope and Crosby on the spur of the moment
or surreptitiously contributed by their own writing staffs. The
film also starred Charles Coburn and Jerry Colonna and marked an
early appearance in a major picture by Anthony Quinn, playing a
"bad guy" role. The plot is very slight, and serves mainly as a
vehicle to promote Crosby's musical numbers and Hope and Crosby's
banter.
The film was an immediate box office success, helped in large
measure by good reviews and by Hope's promotion of it on his weekly
radio show. It was probably also aided by Hope's hosting, for the
first of many times, of the annual Academy Awards show for 1939
pictures, considered by many film historians to have been the best
single year in the history of the American cinema.
This is the only installment of the series in which Hope is
billed third, under Dorothy Lamour.
Ironically, neither Hope nor Crosby reach Singapore in the film.
Instead, the fictional island of "Kaigoon" is the primary location.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Singapore)
Parking is close to: N 49° 27.482 W 115° 43.714
Drive south on Victoria Avenue, continuing along after it becomes
Gold Creek Road. Turn right on 38th Avenue South; follow it to the
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Creek Road, which will veer off to the left with the cross-country
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