"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
April 5, 1943 with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope reprising their film roles.
Although this was the third "Road" picture as noted above, it was the first original screenplay, that is, the storyline wasn't based on an existing story.
For use in this film, Paramount bought comedy routines originally written by Ralph Spence for his story "From Rags to Rhythm."
In 1942, Decca Records issued a Bing Crosby solo version of the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen title song. A later commercial duet by Mr. Crosby and Bob Hope would be included on a Decca boxed album which otherwise was devoted to the Burke-Van Heusen score of Road to Utopia.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Operation Torch, the US invasion of Morocco during the Second World War to liberate it from the pro-Nazi forces of Vichy France, began 48 hours before its first release.
Orville 'Turkey' Jackson said he was born in 1913. In reality, Bob Hope was born in 1903, making him ten years older than his character at the time.
Paramount shot two endings for the film. The one not used had Bob Hope and Bing Crosby enlisting in the Marines and ended with the line "See you on the road to Tokyo."
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
The scene where the camel spits in Turkey's (Bob Hope's) face wasn't planned. The camel did it of its own accord while the cameras were rolling, and Hope's recoil and Bing Crosby's reaction were so funny that it was left in the final cut of the film.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1996.