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25/12/1947 Comedy, Adventure, Music, Romance 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 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.

  1. Norman Z. McLeod

    Director

  2. Edmund Beloin

    Writer

  3. Jack Rose

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Bing Crosby

    Scat Sweeney

  2. Bob Hope

    Hot Lips Barton

  3. Dorothy Lamour

    Lucia Maria de Andrade

  4. Gale Sondergaard

    Catherine Vail

  5. Frank Faylen

    Trigger

  6. Joseph Vitale

    Tony

  7. George Meeker

    Sherman Mallory

  8. Frank Puglia

    Rodrigues

  9. Nestor Paiva

    Cardoso

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2020-02-04
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.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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