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Release Date: 1947

Cast: Jerry Colonna, Herbert Wiere, Stanley Andrews, Harry Woods, Bob Hope, Frank Puglia, George Meeker, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Faylen, Bing Crosby, Nestor Paiva ...MORE

Cast: Jerry Colonna, Herbert Wiere, Stanley Andrews, Harry Woods, Bob Hope, Frank Puglia, George Meeker, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Faylen, Bing Crosby, Nestor Paiva, Sylvester Wiere, Gale Sondergaard, Harry Wiere ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Adventure, Comedy, Buddy Film, Musical, Action/Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Romance Film, Action, Romantic Comedy

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, travel the US trying to find work and stay away from girls. After running from state to state, each time running because of a girl, they try their luck in Louisiana. They stow away on board a Rio-bound ship, after accidentally starting some fires at a circus. They then get mixed up with the distraught... MORE

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, travel the US trying to find work and stay away from girls. After running from state to state, each time running because of a girl, they try their luck in Louisiana. They 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. Unbeknownst to both of them, Lucia is being hypnotized by her crooked guardian, Catherine Vail. Vail plans to marry Lucia to her brother so she can control her and a set of 'papers'. After a series of misadventures including sneaking off the boat, recruiting a few local musicians, and the boys trying to escape with Lucia only to have Vail hypnotize her again and slap them both, Vail decides to do away with the boys permanently. She hypnotizes both of them and tries to get them to kill each other in a duel, but it LESS