Road to Rio

Road to Rio

100 mins | Comedy | Dec. 25, 1947

Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, 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.

Road to Rio

100 mins | Comedy | Dec. 25, 1947

Road to Rio
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, 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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Paramount, Bing Crosby Productions, Hope Enterprises
Original title Road to Rio
Directors Oscar Rudolph, Norman Z. McLeod
Writers Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose

Cast

Bing Crosby

as Scat Sweeney

Bob Hope

as Hot Lips Barton

Dorothy Lamour

as Lucia Maria de Andrade

Gale Sondergaard

as Catherine Vail

Frank Faylen

as Trigger

Joseph Vitale

as Tony

George Meeker

as Sherman Mallory

Frank Puglia

as Rodrigues

Nestor Paiva

as Cardoso

Robert Barrat

as Johnson

Stanley Andrews

as Capt. Harmon

Harry Woods

as Ship's Purser

Laverne Andrews

as Laverne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

as Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

as Patty Andrews

Rolando Barrera

as Bellhop

Arthur Q. Bryan

as Mr. Stanton

Gino Corrado

as Ship's Barber

Franklyn Farnum

as Ship Lounge Extra

Sam Harris

as Ship Lounge Extra

William H. O'Brien

as Ship's Waiter

Frank Ferguson

as Texas Posse Member

George Chandler

as Ship's Steward