Pardon My Sarong
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Pardon My Sarong is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Abbott and Costello. The cast also featured Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige and Lionel Atwill. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures as part of a long-running series featuring the comic duo.
Tommy Layton, a wealthy bachelor, rents a city bus to take him from Chicago to Los Angeles to participate in a yacht race to Hawaii. The bus drivers, Algy and Wellington, are pursued by a detective hired by the bus company. They escape capture by driving the bus off a fishing pier. Layton, who is now on his yacht, rescues them and hires them to be his crew for the race. A competitor of his in the race, Joan Marshall has fired his original crew without his knowledge. He enacts revenge by kidnapping her and taking her along on the race.
While on course to Hawaii, they encounter a typhoon and land on an uncharted island, which is also the home of Dr. Varnoff, a mysterious archaeologist. The island natives mistake Wellington as a legendary hero and inform him that he must marry Princess Luana. Meanwhile, Varnoff plans to make a volcano appear to erupt in order to trick the tribe into offering him their invaluable sacred jewel. The natives send Wellington (and the jewel) to the volcano to defeat the evil spirit of the volcano. Varnoff chases him to the volcano, where they are defeated by Wellington and Algy.
Pardon My Sarong was filmed at Universal Studios from March 2 through April 28, 1942. The film's original draft, dated July 19, 1941, was titled Road to Montezuma. The Ink Spots performed in this movie and were portrayed as waiters. "Do I Worry?" was a feature for lead tenor Bill Kenny and 2nd tenor Deek Watson was featured on "Shout Brother Shout" singing the lead part and playing trumpet.
The famous dance group Tip, Tap and Toe danced during the nightclub scene. The film contains a famous burlesque routine, "The Tree Of Truth". If you tell a lie while standing under a certain tree, something terrible will happen to you. Costello is skulled by a coconut with every lie he tells, and at the end he is neck-deep in coconuts.
Cast
Bud Abbott as Algy Shaw
Lou Costello as Wellington Pflug
Virginia Bruce as Joan Marshall
Robert Paige as Tommy Layton
Lionel Atwill as Varnoff
Leif Erickson as Whaba
Nan Wynn as Luana
William Demarest as Det. Kendall
Samuel S. Hinds as Chief Kolua
Marie McDonald as Ferna
Elaine Morey as Amo
Tip, Tap and Toe
