Road to Rio

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Road to Rio (1947)

NR 12/25/1947 (US) Comedy 1h 40m

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Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio!

Overview

Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.

Norman Z. McLeod

Director
Jack Rose

Writer
Edmund Beloin

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Top Billed Cast

Bing Crosby

Scat Sweeney
Bob Hope

Hot Lips Barton
Dorothy Lamour

Lucia Maria de Andrade
Gale Sondergaard

Catherine Vail
Frank Faylen

Trigger
Joseph Vitale

Tony
George Meeker

Sherman Mallory
Frank Puglia

Rodrigues
Nestor Paiva

Cardoso
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on February 4, 2020

Hot Lips, Scat and the hypnotic shenanigan.

Road to Rio is directed by Norman McLeod and written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose. It stars Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard and Frank Faylen. Music is by Robert Emmett and cinematography by Ernest Laszlo.

Hope and Crosby star as two vaudevillians, who after setting a circus on fire, stow away on a liner bound for Brazil. Once there they encounter a distressed woman (Lamour) who is being coerced into an unwanted marriage by her scheming guardian.

The fifth in the hugely popular "Road To" series of films, Rio follows... read the rest.

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