Bob Hope/Bing Crosby Road Picture # 5 is notable for a few reasons. For one, they actually get to the place they’re on the “road” to! Another, Dorothy Lamour upps the ante with sexy, slinky outfits. (Insert Bob Hope growl here.) Problem, though: too much plot. Like some of the later Marx Brothers movies, someone somewhere along the way thought the audience would want to follow a storyline and the one on display here is not only boring but Byzantine. One other thing: Woody Allen always claimed his early persona was half Groucho half Bob Hope. You can see the influence here more than in any of the other road pictures so far — the double takes, the moments of false bravado switching to cowardice. Woody was 11 or 12 when this movie came out. . .a very influential age.