Funny movie quotes from Road to Bali (1952) starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): He’s gonna sing, folks. Now’s the time to go out and get the popcorn.
Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour): Do you always fight over girls?
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): Well, what else can we fight over? We’ve never had any money
[Looking straight into the camera]
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): That’s for Washington!
[a female ape has sat on Harold’s lap]
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Oh, buster, I don’t like the look in her eye!
[the ape swung a paw at George]
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): George, get a rock, a club, anything! Kill one of us!
[Harold has been caught in a tree snare, proving the island is inhabited]
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): I wonder what the locals are like?
Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour): I hope they’e not cannibals or head shrinkers!
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): I hope they’e orange pickers – I want to get out of this tree!
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Oh, stop squaking, You’ll fall off when you’re ripe!
[George and Princess Lala pull Harold down]
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): This is the sloppiest hanging I ever attended!
[George and Harold are surrounded by beautiful native women. Offstage voice shrieks ‘A-ough! Oh no!’]
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): What’s that?
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): Oh, that’s Errol Flynn. He can’t stand it.
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): [Caught in an animal trap and suspended in the air] Get me down! My brain’s rushing to my head.
[One of the film’s many cameos]
Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour): Look!
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): The African Queen! Humphrey Bogart?
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): Boy, is he lost!
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Hey! Hey, Bogie!
[All three run toward Bogart]
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): Hey, jungle fever! That’s what we got. That was just a mirage!
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Oh yeah? What about this?
[Holding up a trophy]
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Humphrey Bogart’s Academy Award!
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): An Oscar! Gimme that, you got one. Friends, this is a great occasion, me receiving this Academy Award. And I’d like to say a word’¦
[roar from offstage]
George Cochran (Bing Crosby): Run!
Harold Gridley (Bob Hope): That’s the word!
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Product Description of Road to Bali (1952) starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour team up in their sixth “Road” picture Road to Bali which was the only film in the series to be shot in color. Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie for her affections. Of course the boys run into the usual perils such as cannibals a giant squid and numerous cameos from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Director Hal Walker was no stranger to the three actor having directed the trio in Road to Utopia. The final “Road” picture Road to Hong Kong would be released 10 years later with Lamour making a brief cameo appearance.System Requirements:Starring: Bob Hope Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour with Dean Martin Jane Russell and Murvyn Vye. Directed by: Hal Walker. Runtime 90 minutes.