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68% Critic Match
Road to Rio
“Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio!”
6.8 / 10• 1947• 1h 40m•NR• English
ComedyAdventureMusicRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Bing Crosby
Scat Sweeney
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Norman Z. McLeod's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Road to Rio is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
