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Road To Singapore (1940)

At first planned as a vehicle for Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie, this light-hearted adventure was the first screen pairing for Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Fleeing their respective romantic entanglements, American playboys Josh (Crosby) and Ace (Hope) head to Singapore where they find their friendship tested as they almost immediately begin feuding for the hand of gorgeous dancer Mima (Dorothy Lamour). With Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn. 86 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Road To Zanzibar (1941)

Stranded in Africa, carnival con men Chuck Reardon (Bing Crosby) and "Fearless" Hubert Frazier (Bob Hope) find themselves outswindled on a safari scheme by the beautiful Donna Latour (Dorothy Lamour). The locals mistake the boys for gods, but after Fearless loses a wrestling match to a gorilla, they end up left to stew in some cannibals’ pots. The second "Road" movie also stars Una Merkel, Eric Blore, Lionel Royce. 92 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Road To Morocco (1941)

Shipwreck survivors Orville (Bob Hope) and Jeff (Bing Crosby) wind up on the Mediterranean coast and take a camel ride into a comedic Arabian Nights-style adventure, as the pair wind up fighting with desert warrior Mullay Kasim (Anthony Quinn) for the lovely Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour). Dona Drake, Vladimir Sokoloff co-star; among the songs featured is the Crosby standard "Moonlight Becomes You." 83 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Road To Utopia (1946)

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby lead the rush for gold and laughs in the fourth "Road" howler. This time, they play a pair of vaudevillians who get into one wacky adventure after another after they find a map to an Alaskan mine. Perennial co-star Dorothy Lamour joins the boys as the mine owner’s daughter, who’s also trying to get her hands on the map. With Douglass Dumbrille, Hillary Brooke, and narrator Robert Benchley; look for a cameo by Jim Thorpe. 90 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Road To Rio (1946)

Vaudeville musicians Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) stow away on a boat to Brazil and come to the aid of beautiful heiress Lucia (Dorothy Lamour), who’s fallen under the hypnotic spell of--and into an arranged marriage--her scheming aunt (Gale Sondergaard). Fifth "Road" comedy co-stars George Meeker, Frank Faylen, The Andrews Sisters, Jerry Colonna, and The Wiere Brothers. Songs include "But Beautiful," "Apalachicola, Fla." 100 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Road To Bali (1952)

The first and only "Road" movie in Technicolor has American song-and-dance men Harold Gridley (Bob Hope) and George Cochran (Bing Crosby) dodging a double-barreled shotgun wedding in Australia by signing on as deep sea divers on the exotic island of Bali, Indonesia. There the fun-lovin’ pair falls in love with beautiful Princess Lalah (Dorothy Lamour) and meet a chimp that holds a strong resemblance to one well-known ski-nosed actor! With Murvyn Vye, Carolyn Jones. 90 min. C/Rtg: NR

The Road To Hong Kong (1962)

This finale to Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's classic "Road" series finds scam artists Chester Babcock (Hope) and Harry Turner (Crosby) travelling to the Far East and getting involved with top-secret espionage concerning rocket fuel plans. Joan Collins is their femme foil, and there are cameos by the likes of Peter Sellers, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and, yes, Dorothy Lamour. 91 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard and Widescreen; Soundtrack: English mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; theatrical trailers.