In a fast and funny "mockumentary" the life and times of crooner Bing Crosby are presented in a hilarious series of sketches and vignettes. Included are rare glimpses of a young Bing as he struggles to find his way in the tipsy curvy world of Hollywood. Starring: Bing Crosby, Marion Sayers, Alice Adair. Directed by: Bob DeFlores and Ron Hall.
E**R
Interesting.
Poor quality. Interesting information about Bing Crosby and his climb to stardom.
S**A
EnjoyAble if you love Bing Crosby!
Good information and interesting to see him young! Some down volume,probably because so old.
S**Y
Disappointing -- not a true documentary
I happen to like Bing Crosby. I thought that this was going to be a documentary about his rise to fame. It turned out to be a "pseudo-documentary" with excerpts from some old Max Sennett movie footage.
K**R
Four Stars
Good. Read
C**L
Bing Crosby Film
Wasn't what I thought it was, but it was really cheap so it didn't really matter. :)
G**R
Pick another "Road to"
Not what I thought it was going to be, but I didn't read the description. Hard to hear in many places, rather boring.
E**.
A real head-scratcher of a film
The Road To Hollywood is an ersatz 1947 feature film assembled (and very stiffly narrated) by Bud Pollard from four Bing Crosby short subjects made in the 1930s at the Mack Sennett studios. That would make it worthwhile viewing for Bing fans if Pollard had just presented the shorts as a straightforward collection of shorts or as a Robert Youngson-style highlight reel. Instead, Pollard recut and reshuffled the footage in a woefully misguided attempt to build a story out of the footage about Crosby's rise to fame and the studio saddled the sorry mess with a title and an ad campaign that tricked people into thinking it was a new Bing film. The thing that breaks what Pollard is attempting to do is that none of the films have any on-screen talent in common except Bing (for that matter, only two of the shorts even share the same director). The disorienting result is that the cast and setting changes completely every few minutes and the action is kind of hard to follow at times, which is bad news if we're supposed to act like the movie is a single story.If you're a fan of golden-age Hollywood, the shorts that make up The Road To Hollywood are worth tracking down in their original state. The Road to Hollywood itself, on the other hand, is more interesting for what it represents than what's actually on the screen.
M**H
A Few Moments for True Crosby Fans
The draw of this faux documentary is rare footage from Bing Crosby's early days in Hollywood. The scenes come from a handful of Max Sennett slapstick films. The "host" is simply awful, and there's a cringeworthy blackface scene that probably gave Crosby nightmares in his later years. But the film offers a handful of Crosby's better early moments - along with a few songs - that will please die-hard fans.
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