Road to Rio
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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 40mNR 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

Bing Crosby

Scat Sweeney

Lead
Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Hot Lips Barton

Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour

Lucia Maria de Andrade

Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard

Catherine Vail

Frank Faylen

Frank Faylen

Trigger

Joseph Vitale

Joseph Vitale

Tony

George Meeker

George Meeker

Sherman Mallory

Frank Puglia

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.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Road to Rio is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker