The Road to Hong Kong

United Kingdom

1962

91 Min

Black and White

1.66:1

English

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Melvin Frank, William Kirby

SCR Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

CAST Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell, Felix Aylmer, Alan Gifford, Michele Mok, Katya Douglas, Roger Delgado, Robert Ayres, Dorothy Lamour, Dean Martin, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra

ED Alan Osbiston, John C. Smith, John Victor-Smith

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby return as Con-men Chester Babcock and Harry Turner, in the last of their road movies. When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive, and keep the formula out of enemy hands. —IMDb

Director

Norman Panama

Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope’s radio program and for Groucho Marx.

The most famous films he directed were Li’l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and the Bob Hope film How to Commit Marriage (1969). He wrote Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Road to Utopia (1946), and The Court Jester, among other movies.

He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder (1981), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov.

Panama continued to write and direct through the 1980s.

He died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. —Wikipedia