Road to Zanzibar
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Writer: Don Hartman, Frank Butler
Producer: Paul Jones
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second of seven pictures in the popular "Road to ..." series made by the trio. It takes place in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Paramount executives owned the rights to a story by Sy Bartlett titled "Find Colonel Fawcett" about two men trekking through the jungles of Madagascar.
- Thus reborn as a comedy and spoof of the safari genre, the film resembled its predecessor in every important way, with plot taking a back seat to gags (many of them ad libbed), and music.
- The film was so successful that further "Road to..." pictures were assured.
Previous Showings
4 Runs • 2 Festivals
1,084 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (May 11, 1941)
Original Run: May 11, 1941 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (4):
- May 11, 1941 (Sunday - Wednesday)Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
- December 10 - 11, 1991 · 231 ticketsw/ Aloma of the South Seas
- May 10 - 11, 2001 · 352 ticketsMORE HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS 1940-1950w/ Girl Crazy
- February 12 - 13, 2026 · 501 ticketsMusicals, plus Bob Hopew/ The Ghost Breakers