Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...customers get a good run of gags. Says Hope, rope-netted to a dromedary's side: "I never thought I'd end up in a camel's snood." The chinny comedian also does a female impersonation. Crosby, who marks his tenth movie anniversary with this film, celebrates the occasion by being in customary good voice. Best Numbers: Moonlight Becomes You, Constantly. Dorothy Lamour will probably pick up a few more votes as the Army's favorite pin-up girl...
...pallid Sidney Torin, 33, brought up in Brooklyn's slums. For a year Symphony Sid lived in Harlem, acquired a full knowledge of Negro speech and habits. Today he even dresses like many Negroes, wears peg trousers (modified), a flat porkpie hat with a wide brim, knee-length camel's-hair coat, suede shoes...
...mountain roads are a panorama of up-moving and down-moving transport. Here the Russians have utilized everything to get stuff up: even brown, shaggy Tibetan camels are lined through the valleys. Mules in stupid groups mingle on the road, slowing up U.S.-made trucks ably driven by Red Army drivers. The strange smell of Russian petrol is mixed with horse, mule and camel manure and the natural pleasantness of the hills...
...masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...