Road to Rio
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Norman Z. Mcleod
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Gale Sondergaard
Frank Faylen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Song-and-dance men Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton flee a carnival in Louisiana with the owner's two hundred dollars after setting the carnival ablaze. They escape as stowaways on the Queen of Brazil , a ship bound for Rio de Janiero. Scat saves passenger Lucia Maria de Andrade from throwing herself overboard and falls in love with her. Maria's guardian, Catherine Vail, has been hypnotizing her in order to force her into marrying Catherine's brother, Sherman Mallory, who is after Lucia's considerable estate. Under Catherine's hypnosis, Lucia turns in Scat and Hot Lips to the captain, and they are jailed. She later wakes and arranges with the captain for Scat and Hot Lips to work for their passage as members of the ship's orchestra. Lucia intercepts a radiogram from Sherman to Catherine which states that Lucia must marry him immediately before Catherine's lawyer, Rodrigues, interferes. Lucia explains Catherine's motives to Scat, who, upon their arrival in Rio, smuggles Lucia off the boat in a bass fiddle case. On land, Scat sells the American act of Scat Sweeney and Ginger O'Roark (who is really Lucia) to hotel proprietor Cardoso. Hot Lips appears on trumpet, along with three Brazilian musicians, who pretend to be Americans. After Lucia refuses to marry Sherman, Catherine hypnotizes her and she exposes the Brazilian trio as imposters to Cardoso. Catherine offers Scat and Hot Lips ten thousand dollars to leave Brazil and hypnotizes them into accepting a duel. They awaken in time to avoid killing each other, and Scat finally realizes that Catherine has been hypnotizing Lucia. After Catherine, Sherman and Lucia have left for Catherine's wedding, Rodrigues tells Scat and Hot Lips that Lucia's estate papers are hidden in Catherine's safe. In order to stop the wedding, Scat and Hot Lips must present the papers to the prefeito , who will be performing the ceremony. They successfully steal the papers, but are caught by Tony and Harry, Catherine's henchmen, whom they hypnotize before escaping. Meanwhile, Rodrigues and comedian Jerry Colonna lead the cavalry in a race to the scene, but are too late. Scat and Hot Lips stop the wedding in time and expose Catherine and Sherman's scheme to the prefeito . Back in the United States, Scat visits Lucia and Hot Lips in a hotel suite in Niagara Falls, where Lucia tells Scat that she has loved Hot Lips all along. After he leaves, however, Scat looks through the keyhole and discovers that Hot Lips has hypnotized Lucia.
Director
Norman Z. Mcleod
Cast
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Gale Sondergaard
Frank Faylen
Joseph Vitale
George Meeker
Frank Puglia
Nestor Paiva
Robert Barrat
Stanley Andrews
Harry Woods
The Wiere Brothers
The Andrews Sisters
Jerry Colonna
The Stone-barton Puppeteers
Tor Johnson
Albert Ruiz
Laura Corbay
Rudolfo Silva
Jane Everett
Rudolph Andrian
Bonnie Vallarino
Donald Kerr
Jack Gargan
Stanley Blystone
Pat Lane
George Sorel
John "skins" Miller
Frank Hagney
Duke York
Ralph Gomez
William Newell
John Mallon
Fred Zendar
Alan Bridge
Ralph Dunn
Paul Newlan
George Lloyd
George Chandler
Gino Corrado
Norma Gentner
Arthur Q. Bryan
Rolando Barrera
Lionel Dante
Stenio Ozorio
Marquita Rivera
Jeanne Gail
Kay Young
Julian Rivero
Patsy O'byrne
Lucille Barkley
Renee Randall
Robbie Franks
Don Avalier
Rene Dussaq
Kathyrine Valk
Barbara Pratt
Victor Romito
Tad Van Brunt
Raul Roulien
Tom Ladd
Byron Poindexter
Delmar Costello
Arthur Vallee
Dolores Castle
Joe Whitehead
Pepito Perez
Frank Ferguson
Charles Middleton
Ray Teal
Brandon Hurst
Frederic Nay
Tom Dugan
Bert Hanlon
Llorna Jordan
Charley Cooley
Babe London
Hal K. Dawson
Crew
Ary Barroso
Edmund Beloin
Johnny Burke
Sam Comer
Hannibal Cruz
Billy Daniels
Daniel Dare
Barney Dean
Robert Emmett Dolan
Hans Dreier
Farciot Edouart
Edith Head
Earl Hedrick
Ellsworth Hoagland
Gordon Jennings
Ernest Laszlo
Paul Lerpae
Harold Lewis
Joseph J. Lilley
Ray Moyer
Ernesto Nazareth
Walter Oberst
Louis Oliveira
Vincente Paiva
Russo De Pandiero
Bernard Pearce
Peterpan
Luis Pexoto
Sa Roris
Jack Rose
Oscar Rudolph
Troy Sanders
James Van Heusen
Wally Westmore
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Score
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to New York Times, Paramount, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby each owned one third of this picture, having each put up a third of the $2,400,000 budget. According to Paramount News, noted Brazilian musician Louis Oliveira, the former leader and arranger for Carmen Miranda's band, worked as technical advisor on this film and taught Crosby the Portuguese language and song style. Robert Emmett Dolan was nominated for an Academy Award for Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) of this film. The song "You Don't Have to Know the Language" became a big hit for the Andrew Sisters. This was the fifth in the "Road to..." series starring Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. For more information on the series, consult the Series Index and see the entry for Road to Singapore in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.3789.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video March 1988
Released in United States Winter December 25, 1947
Released in United States on Video March 1988
Released in United States Winter December 25, 1947
