The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1942

Road to Morocco (Paramount) is interrupted midway by a Hapsburg-looking camel who remarks: "This is the screwiest picture I was ever in." No strangers to screwballistics, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour may well agree with him.

Third in the series that began with Road to Singapore, this elaborate essay in slapstick is dedicated to the propositions that frenzy is fun and that even a cold-storage turkey can fly if its torso is Lamour, and if Hope and Crosby flap its wings. Neither proposition quite proves out.

Shipwrecked on Hollywood's fixed idea of the North African desert, still unchanged since the days...

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