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The last "Road" film, with Hope and Crosby looking older and more tired than their 57 (or so) years. Joan Collins plays the female lead in a turgid thriller in which Robert Morley's character is trying to dominate the world. The casting and the dialogue are all wrong, though, until Dorothy Lamour appears near the end.
By this time Hope has a large number of live fish concealed in his shirt, and there are a few minutes of the old magic as the fish intervene unhelpfully at critical moments in the action.
The film was shot at Shepperton in England, and the pioneer British transsexual April Ashley appears in the film as an extra: just an hour in to the action, Hope is carried out of a room by several beautiful women, of whom she is one. She is the one bringing up the rear, in black. She is not credited in the titles, and there is a conspiracy theory that this is because the film makers discovered her transsexuality. However, she told me that in fact she played a small speaking part, but it ended up on the cutting room floor; I suspect it's that simple.
HF December 2001
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