Rio
Cast & Crew
John Brahm
Basil Rathbone
Victor Mclaglen
Sigrid Gurie
Robert Cummings
Leo Carrillo
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America. To remain close to her husband, Irene, accompanied by Dirk, Paul's body guard and valet, travels to Rio de Janeiro, where she finds a job singing in Roberto's Cafe. At the cafe, Irene meets Bill Gregory, an American engineer whose morale has been destroyed by the collapse of a bridge that he was building. Bill falls in love with Irene, and one night while drunk, volunteers to design an irrigation system for the drought-stricken peasants living on Roberto's ranch. Though his offer was a drunken boast, when Bill sobers up, he is touched by the plight of the peasants and begins to design a dam. Meanwhile, at the penal colony, Paul, goaded by the sadistic guard Rocco, becomes restless and sends an emissary to Dirk, instructing him to arrange a jail break. After completing the dam, Bill proclaims his love to Irene, but she remains faithful to Paul, even though she no longer loves him. Soon afterward, Paul stages a jail break and pins his identification number onto a fellow prisoner that he has murdered during the escape. Receiving word of her husband's death, Irene accepts Bill's proposal and they are in the midst of planning their wedding when Paul appears and threatens Bill's life. As the police surround them, Dirk pleads with Paul to give himself up, and in the ensuing struggle, Paul is shot. Dirk then picks up Paul's unconscious body, walks into the police dragnet and perishes in a hail of bullets.
Director
John Brahm
Cast
Basil Rathbone
Victor Mclaglen
Sigrid Gurie
Robert Cummings
Leo Carrillo
Billy Gilbert
Maurice Moscovich
Irving Bacon
Samuel S. Hinds
Irving Pichel
Ferika Boras
Henry Armetta
Theodore Rand
Geneva Hall
Lionel Pape
Russell Hicks
Ferdinand Munier
Landers Stevens
Ed Mortimer
Kathleen Howard
Frank Reicher
Harry Worth
C. Montague Shaw
Paul Bryar
Lane Chandler
George Davis
Chris-pin Martin
Howard Brooks
Louise Brien
Otto Han
Edward Keane
William Royle
Ben Taggart
Alphonse Martell
George Lloyd
Virginia Dabney
Alice Ardell
Harold De Garo
Mia Ichioka
William Worthington
Ernie Adams
Marty Faust
Sid D'albrook
Franco Corsaro
Tony Paton
Jimmie Lucas
Harry Lang
Valeska Gert
Delmar Costello
Jack Chefe
Frances Robinson
Olaf Hytten
Walter Fenner
Eddy Chandler
Ernest Lenart
Nick Thompson
Eric Alden
Evelyn Selbie
Grayce Hampton
Charles Sullivan
Crew
Stephen Morehouse Avery
Bernard B. Brown
Philip Cahn
Larry Ceballos
Ralph Freed
R. A. Gausman
Charles Grayson
William Hedgecock
Aben Kandel
Phillip Karlstein
Edwin Justus Mayer
Jimmy Mchugh
Hal Mohr
Jean Negulesco
Martin Obzina
Banta Orgolini
Jack Otterson
Frank Partos
Madame Pola
Charles Previn
Frank Skinner
Vera West
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter, Danielle Darrieux was originally slated for the female lead. Another news item in Hollywood Reporter adds that technical director Banta Orgolini was a Hollywood correspondent for several Brazilian publications.
