Watch L'Homme de Rio (1964) Free Online

Release Date: 1964

Cast: Adolfo Celi, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Categories: Movies, Action, Adventure Comedy, Adventure, Comedy, Action Comedy

That Man From Rio (French: L'Homme de Rio) is a 1964 adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac, the sister of Catherine Deneuve. Concidentally, Belmondo would later star with Deneuve in the 1969 film Mississippi Mermaid, also a United Artists film. It is the first film to be made by the French subisidy of United Artists Les Productions Artistes Associés. The film was a huge success in with total of 4,800,626 admissions in France becoming the 5th highest earning film of the year. This fast-moving spoof of Bond-type movies features... MORE

That Man From Rio (French: L'Homme de Rio) is a 1964 adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac, the sister of Catherine Deneuve. Concidentally, Belmondo would later star with Deneuve in the 1969 film Mississippi Mermaid, also a United Artists film. It is the first film to be made by the French subisidy of United Artists Les Productions Artistes Associés. The film was a huge success in with total of 4,800,626 admissions in France becoming the 5th highest earning film of the year. This fast-moving spoof of Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer's nascent Brasília and Paris of the time. In 1964 the film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. As airman Adrien Dufourquet embarks on an 8-day leave in Paris to see his fiancée, Agnès, two South American Indians steal an Amazon statuette from a museum and force Professor Catalan, the curator, into their car. Catalan was Agnes' father's companion on an Amazon expedition during which her father died. Catalan believes that the statuette is one of three which hold the secret to an Amazon treasure. Adrien LESS