Road to Rio

Name: Road to Rio
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Music, Romance
Released: 1947-12-25
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.811

★ 6,8 /10 (45 Votes)

1947 EN 100 min

Overview

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, 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.

Release date

25/12/1947

Votes

Popularity

1.7

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Genres

Comedy Adventure Music Romance

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

100 min

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

Robert Barrat

Johnson

Stanley Andrews

Captain Harmon

Harry Woods

Ship's Purser

Herbert Wiere

Musician

Harry Wiere

Musician

Sylvester Wiere

Musician

Laverne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Jerry Colonna

Zé Carioca

Carioca Boy

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Nestor Amaral

Carioca Boy

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Russo do Pandeiro

Carioca Boy

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Russinho

Carioca Boy

Laurindo Almeida

Carioca Boy

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Rolando Barrera

Bellhop (uncredited)

Arthur Q. Bryan

Mr. Stanton (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

Ship's Barber (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

(uncredited)

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Sam Harris

(uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Ship's Waiter (uncredited)

Frank Ferguson

Texas Posse Member (uncredited)

George Chandler

Ship's Steward (uncredited)

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Rudolph Andrean

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

Tor Johnson

The Great Samson (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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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 follow…

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