Road to Rio

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Road to Rio
1947 movie poster
Directed by	Norman McLeod
Produced by	Daniel Dare
Written by	Edmund Beloin Jack Rose
Starring	Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Gale Sondergaard Frank Faylen
Music by	Robert Emmett Dolan
Cinematography	Ernest Laszlo
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 25, 1947
Running time	100 min
Country	U.S.
Language	English
Preceded by	Road to Utopia
Followed by	Road to Bali
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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.

[edit] 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 Rivera

All lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

• Road to Rio at the Internet Movie Database
• Road to Rio at Allmovie

Road to... refers to a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. They are also often referred to as "Road pictures."

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