“...At Paramount, the general idea was to get a talented group of performers together, think up some kind of story and photograph the song and dance numbers as unobtrusively as possible.... Road to Singapore and the six Road pictures that followed were an especially happy vindication of this minimalist approach. Together with the Preston Sturges comedies (most of which were also produced by Paramount), they probably represented the forties' closest equivalent to the slapstick masterpieces of the teens and twenties.... (Some of the famous Hope-Crosby ad libs have a suspiciously scripted sound, but those two veteran performers knew how to create the illusion of spontaneity, which was all that mattered.)” Charles Hopkins