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Road To Rio

1947, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Road To Rio: Review

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The fifth "Road" picture was a more standard comedy than most of the others and paid off at the box office, becoming the top-grossing film of the year. Gone were the talking animals and some of the zany humor of the earlier entries. In their place was a more conventional story, sans Hollywood in-jokes, in which Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) are musicians who accidentally cause a fire at a carnival. To avoid being arrested for arson, they jump on an ocean liner headed for Rio and stow away. On the ship, they meet Lucia Maria De Andrade (Dorothy Lamour), who is friendly, then chilly, smiling, then frowning, so that the boys can't figure her out. Upon investigation, they discover she has been hypnotized by the evil Catherine Veil (Gale Sondergaard) and is to marry a man she doesn't love once they reach Rio. Of course, the pair decide they must interfere and prevent the marriage, going so far as to crash the wedding party dressed as a pirate (Crosby) and a Latin American bombshell (Hope in drag) in order to expose the hypnotist's deceit. Lots of laughs. leave a comment
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