Road to Bali

1952

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 64% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 5517 5.5K

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Plot summary

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Director

Hal Walker Photo
Hal Walker

Top cast

Michael Ansara Photo
Michael Ansara as Guard
Carolyn Jones Photo
Carolyn Jones as Eunice
Leon Askin Photo
Leon Askin as King Ramayana
Patricia Dane Photo
Patricia Dane as Handmaiden
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
750.95 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 2
1.43 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by willrams 6 / 10

Fun with Hope & Crosby

I like all of the Hope and Crosby road pictures even if they were kind of silly. I grew up with them; even saw Hope on stage at the Palace Theater in Cleveland, Ohio in the old vaudeville days (they also had a picture show). Anyhow, as simple as they were, they were funny in their own way, and I loved Crosby singing, and Dorothy Lamour's vocaling in amour! Saw The Road to Bali on the tube AMC for the umpteenth time, and still enjoyed it; as usual the music is great, and the boys really didn't know how to end it! 6/10
Reviewed by ptb-8 6 / 10

The Bali High equivalent of Flying High

On a scale of one to a million this rates about a 999,999 on the silly scale. In colour and with beautiful production values ROAD TO BALI made in 1952 contains as many up to date movie and social references as an encyclopedia written by Ludwig Von Drake. In a huge theatre these ROAD films must have lifted the roof with laughter, and as a DVD diversion in 2006 any of them can be a generous and loony mood lifter. There is actually many laugh out loud moments still to be had even if you weren't born or aware of life in the early 50s. THE ROAD TO BALI (pronounced "Bally" by Americans; "Barley" by the rest of us) is basically flat-out hilarious with quips and ad libs galore. Even if you cringe at Bing Crosby as I do, there is enough genuinely funny lines and situations and terrible gags to overwhelm you...much like THE PRODUCERS released this year insists we find it relentlessly dementedly funny. To me Bob Hope has always been Daffy Duck (Groucho Marx was Bugs Bunny) and it is his vaudeville lunacy that carries Crosby inbetween squabbling over Lamour and pushing through all parts of the set. This film has some excellent special effects, very admirable for '52. A hilarious cameo from Jane Russell is the cherry on the icing. Some big dance scenes are an added bonus. Fun fun and demented fun. What a year 1952 was for hilarious films (look 'em up).
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