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Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio! - Road to Rio
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Title: Road to Rio

Release Date: 25 Dec 1947

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Music, Romance

Director: Hope Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Bing Crosby Productions

Production Companies: Hope Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Bing Crosby Productions

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.8 (40 votes)

Cast

  • Scat Sweeney: Bing Crosby
  • Hot Lips Barton: Bob Hope
  • Lucia Maria de Andrade: Dorothy Lamour
  • Catherine Vail: Gale Sondergaard
  • Trigger: Frank Faylen
  • Tony: Joseph Vitale
  • Sherman Mallory: George Meeker
  • Rodrigues: Frank Puglia
  • Cardoso: Nestor Paiva
  • Johnson: Robert Barrat
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