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Road to Rio Overview:

Road to Rio (1947) was a Musical - Comedy Film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Daniel Dare.

SYNOPSIS

The fifth of the "Road" series finds Hope and Crosby stowing away on a southbound steamship after setting fire to the carnival in which they were working. Onboard, they notice Lamour, who is alternatively inviting and indifferent. They discover that she's been hypnotized by her aunt into marrying a man she doesn't love. The boys find work in Rio with a trio, and crash Lamour's wedding just in time. Hope gets the girl in this one, with a little hocus-pocus of his own. Fewer set pieces, more plot, same riotous comedy. One of the best in the series.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1947 --- Ceremony Number 20 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringRobert Emmett DolanNominated
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Road to Rio BlogHub Articles:

Road to Rio (1947)

By 4 Star Film Fan on May 15, 2018 From 4 Star Films

My dad has been and forever will be a fountain of pop cultural knowledge. I learned the little I know from the best, the difference is, he lived through most of it. Still, I must admit, at times I didn’t believe some of these touchstones of yesteryear when I was a kid. How could anyone have ac... Read full article

A Caminho do Rio / Road to Rio (1947)

By Lê on Jul 15, 2015 From Critica Retro

A Caminho do Rio / Road to Rio (1947) O ano é 1947. Desde 1944 Bing Crosby detinha o título de ator com maior sucesso de bilheteria. Em uma situação muito confortável, ele fez com seus parceiros Bob Hope e Dorothy Lamour o quinto dos sete filmes da série “Road to...”, que mi... Read full article

A Caminho do Rio / Road to Rio (1947)

By Lê on Nov 30, -0001 From Critica Retro

A Caminho do Rio / Road to Rio (1947) O ano é 1947. Desde 1944 Bing Crosby detinha o título de ator com maior sucesso de bilheteria. Em uma situação muito confortável, ele fez com seus parceiros Bob Hope e Dorothy Lamour o quinto dos sete filmes da série “Road to...”, que m... Read full article

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Road to Rio Quotes:

Hot Lips Barton: [to Catherine Vail] Are you waiting for your broom?
Scat Sweeney: I'll listen for you on "The Inner Sanctum."
Hot Lips Barton: If they hear us, we're dead ducks!
Hot Lips Barton: [Dropping the painting] Whoops! Quack, quack!
Scat Sweeney: [Hastily leaving the room] Quack, quack, quack, quack!
Hot Lips Barton: [to his trumpet] You happy little Grable bait!
Cardoso: You phoneys! You'll never work in Rio again!
Hot Lips Barton: Who wants to work? We're musicians!
Scat Sweeney: [Uncovering a side of meat in a freezer as he looks for Hot Lips] Well, I'm getting warm. That's ham!
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Road to Rio Facts
At 100 minutes, this is the longest of the seven "Road" pictures.
This film contains the last on-screen singing performance by The Andrews Sisters, who share with Bing Crosby the saucy Latin-swing hit, "You Don't Have to Know the Language" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke). This number was revived splendidly by Lena Horne on two RCA Victor albums: "Songs by Burke and Van Heusen" (released in 1959), and "Lena at the Sands" (recorded live in Las Vegas, November 3-5, 1960).
The fifth of the seven Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour "Road" films.
In the meat freezer scene there is a large side of meat labeled "Crosby Grade A Stables." Bing Crosby owned a stable of race horses that famously performed poorly.
On the Decca Records boxed album of selections from the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen film score, substitutions were made in the way that two songs were presented. Bob Hope was under contract to Capitol Records at this point, so the Hope-Bing Crosby duet of the agile city tune, "Apalachicola, FLA," was semi-recast on the album by teaming Bing with The Andrews Sisters, already guest-starring in the movie. Dorothy Lamour, recording for the Coast label at this point, delivered in this feature the comically sly "Experience," which was transformed by Decca into a pairing of Mr. Crosby and Nan Wynn, who did not participate in the picture.
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