Road to Rio(Movie, 1947)

Name: Road to Rio
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1947
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 3.4

| 1h 40min | Genre: Comedy

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Road to Rio is a 1947 American semimusical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Road to Rio was the fifth of the "Road to …" series. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Road to Rio

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

About Road to Rio

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Rio de Janeiro

Made by: Paramount Pictures, Bing Crosby Productions, Hope Enterprises

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/25/1947

Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Frank Faylen, Frank Puglia, Charles Middleton, George Meeker, Jerry Colonna, Nestor Paiva, Robert Barrat, Stanley Andrews, Harry Woods

Director: Norman Z. McLeod, Jack Rose

Producer: Jack Rose

Screenwriter: Jack Rose

Film Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland

Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo

Composer: Robert E. Dolan

Costume designer: Edith Head

Production Designer: Hans Dreier

Keywords: musical, road movie, rio de janeiro

Color: Black & White (B/W)