Funny movie quotes from Road to Rio starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): Swine!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Pig!
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): That’s the same as swine.
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): All right. Ham!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Looking at the bicycle on the high wire he has to ride] You want me want me to ride that thing?
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): Why not?
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Up in the stratosphere?
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): Oh, you
[mumbles]
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Who do you think I am - Mr. Jordan?
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Hanging off the high wire] Help! Help!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Aside to camera] You know, this picture could end right here.
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): [Uncovering a side of meat in a freezer as he looks for Hot Lips] Well, I’m getting warm. That’s ham!
Lucia Maria de Andrade: I don’t know what came over me! I found myself saying things, and I didn’t know why I was saying them.
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Look, why don’t you just run for Congress and leave us alone?
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [to Catherine Vail] Are you waiting for your broom?
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): I’ll listen for you on “The Inner Sanctum.”
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Staring at Lucia’s very tight gown] How’d you put that on - with a spraygun?
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Look at this contract we signed for five months - two weeks guarantee!
Cardoso: You phoneys! You’ll never work in Rio again!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Who wants to work? We’re musicians!
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): This might be a plot to get rid of us! The coffee might be poisoned!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): Yeah, who knows this co…
[He drops the cup]
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [to Catherine Vail] You got any tea?
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): Are you admitting you’re a dirty coward?
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): No, a clean one!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [to his trumpet] You happy little Grable bait!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): If they hear us, we’re dead ducks!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Dropping the painting] Whoops! Quack, quack!
Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby): [Hastily leaving the room] Quack, quack, quack, quack!
Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope): [Knocking the bad guys unconscious with the pattycake routine] That’s what they get for not seeing our pictures!
Trivia about Road to Rio starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
- At 100 minutes, this is the longest of the seven “Road” pictures.
- In the meat freezer scene there is a large side of meat labeled “Crosby Grade A Stables.” Bing Crosby owned a stable of race horses that famously performed poorly.
- Hiding in the lifeboat, Bob Hope is polishing his trumpet and says “You happy little Grable fodder”. Heartthrob Betty Grable married trumpeter Harry James in 1943.
- Disembarking from the ship, Bing Crosby tells sinister Gale Sondegaard “I’ll listen for you on Inner Sanctum”. Radio’s “Inner Sanctum Mysteries” debuted in 1941 and featured gruesome stories and spine-chilling characters.
- Leading the cavalry chase at the end of the movie is Bob Hope’s long-time radio partner, bushy mustached Jerry Colonna.
- Escaping from the hoods at the wedding by bursting through the crowd, Scat shouts “Come on Blanchard” and Hotlips replies “Block ‘em Davis”. The audience would have recognized the reference to Felix “Doc” Blanchard and Glenn Davis, former Army star running backs. As team-mates from 1944 to 1946, they were referred to as “Mr. Inside” and “Mr. Outside.” Blanchard had won the Heisman Trophy in 1945 and Davis in 1946, the year before the movie was released.
- This film contains the last on-screen singing performance by The Andrews Sisters, who share with Bing Crosby the saucy Latin-swing hit, “You Don’t Have to Know the Language” (music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke’ (II)). This number was revived splendidly by Lena Horne on two RCA Victor albums: “Songs by Burke and Van Heusen” (released in 1959), and “Lena at the Sands” (recorded live in Las Vegas, November 3-5, 1960).
- On the Decca Records boxed album of selections from the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen film score, substitutions were made in the way that two songs were presented. Bob Hope was under contract to Capitol Records at this point, so the Hope-Bing Crosby duet of the agile city tune, “Apalachicola, FLA,” was semi-recast on the album by teaming Bing with The Andrews Sisters, already guest-starring in the movie. Dorothy Lamour, recording for the Coast label at this point, delivered in this feature the comically sly “Experience,” which was transformed by Decca into a pairing of Mr. Crosby and Nan Wynn, who did not participate in the picture.
Editorial review courtesy of Amazon.com
To avoid being charged with arson after burning down a circus Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) stow away on an ocean bound ship. Aboard the vessel the duo fall for Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour) who is under the spell of her evil aunt (Gale Sondergaard) who has arranged a marriage for the young beauty. This film was in good hands since many of Hope s best collaborators worked on the picture. Director Norman Z. McLeod went on to direct Hope in four more features Alias Jessie James Casanova s Big Night My Favorite Spy and The Paleface. McLeod had a remarkable career behind the camera working with such Hollywood greats as Danny Kaye(The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) W.C. Fields (It s A Gift) and Cary Grant (Topper). Writer Edmund Beloin supplied the stories for both My Favorite Spy and The Lemon Drop Kid. His collaborator Jack Rose penned My Favorite Brunette The Great Lover Sorrowful Jones and The Seven Little Foys. This film also features musical guests The Wiere Brothers and The Andrew Sisters.System Requirements:Starring: Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod. Running time: 100 minutes / B&W (Not Rated) Copyright 1949 Columbia Pictures
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