Road to Rio

Infobox Film
name = Road to Rio


caption = 1947 movie poster
director = Norman McLeod
producer = Daniel Dare
writer = Edmund Beloin
Jack Rose
starring = Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Gale Sondergaard
Frank Faylen
music = Robert Emmett Dolan
cinematography = Ernest Laszlo
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = December 25, 1947
runtime = 100 min
country = U.S.
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = Road to Utopia
followed_by = Road to Bali
amg_id = 1:41580
imdb_id = 0039776

"Road to Rio" is a 1947 comedy film, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade. It was the fifth of the Road to... series.

Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio-bound ship, after accidentally starting some fires at a circus. They then get mixed up with the distraught 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.

Hope's frequent sidekick Jerry Colonna has a cameo as the leader of a cavalry charging to the rescue of Bing and Bob, as the film cuts away to the galloping horses periodically. All is resolved before Colonna can arrive. "Exciting, though... "was"n't it?!"

Songs

*"You Don't Have To Know The Language", performed by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
*"Experience", by Dorothy Lamour
*"But Beautiful", Bing Crosby
*"Apalachicola, Fla.", Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
*"For What?", Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
*"Diz Que Tem", performed by Marquita RiveraAll lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

DVD Release

Due to irregularities with copyright, all works in the "Road to..." series filmed in Paramount Pictures to lapse into the public domain. As such, there have been at least a dozen DVD releases from a variety of companies over the years.

External links

*imdb title|id=0039776|title=Road to Rio
*amg title | id=1:41580 | title=Road to Rio