Road to Rio

Road to Rio is a 1947 film about two vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a hypnotist to marry off her niece.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Written by Jack Rose.

Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio!  (taglines)

Hot Lips Barton

• [Hanging off the high wire] Help! Help! [Aside to camera] You know, this picture could end right here.

• [appearing in gaudy circus tights] Do you think Superman will sue?

• [Staring at Lucia's very tight gown] How'd you put that on - with a spraygun?

• Look at this contract we signed for five months - two weeks guarantee!

• [Knocking the bad guys unconscious with the pattycake routine] That's what they get for not seeing our pictures!

• [looking at Tor Johnson] How did Mount Baldy get into this?

Dialogue

Scat Sweeney: Swine!

Hot Lips Barton: Pig!

Scat Sweeney: That's the same as swine.

Hot Lips Barton: All right. Ham!

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Lucia Maria de Andrade: I don't know what came over me! I found myself saying things, and I didn't know why I was saying them.

Hot Lips Barton: Look, why don't you just run for Congress and leave us alone?

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Scat Sweeney: Are you admitting you're a dirty coward?

Hot Lips Barton: No, a clean one!

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Cardoso: You phoneys! You'll never work in Rio again!

Hot Lips Barton: Who wants to work? We're musicians!

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[Lucia slaps Scat's face]

Scat Sweeney: Baby?!

Hot Lips Barton: Baby? Seems more like Bogie!

Taglines

• Something Great For You...Their New and Nuttiest Road Show
• Take a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio!

Cast

• Bing Crosby — Scat Sweeney
• Bob Hope — Hot Lips Barton
• Dorothy Lamour — Lucia Maria de Andrade
• Gale Sondergaard — Catherine Vail
• Frank Faylen — Trigger
• Joseph Vitale — Tony
• George Meeker — Sherman Mallory
• Frank Puglia — Rodrigues
• Nestor Paiva — Cardoso
• Robert Barrat — Johnson
• Stanley Andrews — Capt. Harmon
• Harry Woods — Ship's Purser
• The Wiere Brothers — Three Musicians
• The Andrews Sisters — Themselves
• Jerry Colonna — Himself
• Marquita Rivera — Nightclub Performer

External links

• Road to Rio quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Road to Rio at Allmovie