Road to Rio

Road to Rio

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

NR 1947 · 100 min · ★ 6.8 · Comedy, Adventure, Music, Romance

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.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod · Written by Jack Rose

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Bing Crosby Scat Sweeney
Bob Hope Hot Lips Barton
Dorothy Lamour Lucia Maria de Andrade
Gale Sondergaard Catherine Vail
Frank Faylen Trigger
Joseph Vitale Tony
George Meeker Sherman Mallory
Frank Puglia Rodrigues
Nestor Paiva Cardoso
Robert Barrat Johnson
Stanley Andrews Captain Harmon
Harry Woods Ship's Purser

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