Cul-de-Sac

The Road to Hong Kong is the seventh Road picture made by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby during the past 22 years, and the first since The Road to Bali in 1953. Each new Road has reached a bit further for its humor than the last, and since it is a basic law of nature that farce times farce distance equals resistance times resistance distance, resistance to Hong Kong should be high.

Now and then the picture sends up a good line, like "I can see the tears forming in your wallet," and "What if a cobra bites you in a place you can't reach? That's when you find out who your real friends are." For auld lang zing, Dorothy Lamour puts in an appearance, boldly slinking around in a sarong and looking half her age. But for the most part, The Road to Hong Kong seems like a whoop-it-up college reunion held by the last two members of the class of 1892.

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