Road to Rio | |
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Directed by | Norman McLeod |
Written by | |
Screenplay by | Barney Dean |
Produced by | Daniel Dare |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Bing Crosby Productions Hope Enterprises |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.4 million[1] |
Box office | $4.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2][3] |
Road to Rio is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.[4] Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner. Once in Brazil, they foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Road to Rio was the fifth of the "Road to ..." series.