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Road to Rio (1947)

Road to Rio poster
Directed by
Jack Rose, Norman Z. McLeod
Genre
buddy film, romantic comedy, musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two clumsy vaudeville performers sneak onto a ship heading to Brazil. There they stop a hypnotist from forcing her niece to marry a fortune hunter.

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What happens

Road to Rio is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner. Once in Brazil, they foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Road to Rio was the fifth of the "Road to ..." series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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