Synopsis
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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Cast
- Bing CrosbyDuke Johnson
- Bob HopeChester Hooton
- Dorothy LamourSal Van Hoyden
- Hillary BrookeKate
- Douglass DumbrilleAce Larson
- Jack La RueLeBec
- Robert BarratSperry
- Nestor PaivaMcGurk
- Robert BenchleyNarrator
- George AndersonTownsman (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 90
Salon
Hope and Crosby accomplished a rare thing, an ad-libbed, brilliantly performed surrealistic romp through the fourth wall of studio convention. Their comic timing has to be seen to be believed, and Road to Utopia is the place to go to be converted. - 80
The New York Times
A blizzard of fractious sport and clowning, a whirlwind of gags and travesty, a snowdrift of suffocating nonsense. - 75
Chicago Reader
It's one of the most consistently funny films in the “Road” series, though by this late point (1945) the manic unpredictability of the early films has settled slightly into formula. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Once again, animals talk, sight gags abound, and the complementing temperaments of Hope and Crosby are mined to great advantage. - 70
Time Out
A typical Road movie (Utopia being Alaska), this has Lamour oscillating between Bob and Bing for possession of both halves of the map to her goldmine. But kiss-kiss and moonlight serenading aside, it's always the quipping rivalry of the duo that rules. - 70
Variety
Technically picture leaves nothing to be desired. Paul Jones, producer, and Hal Walker, who directed, make a fine combination in steering and in the production value provided. - 50
The New Yorker
Perhaps the farthest out of the Bob Hope--Bing Crosby road pictures. Some of the patter is pure, relaxed craziness, but the topical jokes and the awful quips keep pulling it down.
