The Road to Hong Kong (1962) was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence.
Filmed in England at Shepperton Studios, regular stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope returned, but the leading lady was now Joan Collins rather than Dorothy Lamour. Lamour made a cameo appearance as herself late in...
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The Road to Hong Kong (1962) was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence.
Filmed in England at Shepperton Studios, regular stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope returned, but the leading lady was now Joan Collins rather than Dorothy Lamour. Lamour made a cameo appearance as herself late in the film and other cameos are provided by David Niven, Peter Sellers, Roger Delgado, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Hope's character is named "Chester Babcock" an in joke as songwriter James Van Heusen was born "Edward Chester Babcock". The lamasary where Hope goes to restore his memory is reused from Black Narcissus.
In her autobiography, Dorothy Lamour said that Crosby had felt her too old to play a leading lady whilst Hope refused to do the film without her. Her extended cameo that featured her singing and having interplay with Hope and...
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