BING & BOB - ROAD TO MOROCCO TRAILER...

This entry in the 'ROAD' series of movies was a

staple of Sunday afternoon TV viewing over the course

of many years, and I've lost count of the number of times

I've now seen this comedy classic.  I'm sure I saw it at my

grandparents' house at least once, but the last occasion I

recall was on one of the rare times they visited us on a

Sunday, rather than us visiting them.

I saw it again after that, of course - many times,

but somehow that's the one that seems foremost in my

mind, when six of us sat around the TV and laughed up-

roariously at BING & BOB's antics, with my father giving

a running commentary on what was coming up next.  Not

that it mattered of course, because we'd all seen it

before and practically knew it off by heart.

I now have the complete set of 'Road' movies in a

gloriously remastered DVD box set and it goes without

saying that I have memories associated with all seven films.

However, ROAD To MOROCCO is probably my favour-

ite of them all, which is high praise indeed because the other

six are pretty durn funny.  HOPE & CROSBY were plan-

ning another in the series (ROAD To The FOUNTAIN

Of Youth) when Bing died suddenly on a golf course

in 1977.  There was talk of Bob doing the film with

GEORGE BURNS, but it never happened.

Perhaps it was just as well;  good as George Burns

was, Bing & Bob had a special chemistry that was diffi-

cult to beat.  Altogether now - "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,

Baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can..."

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