This hd dvd double feature is certainly a very nice way to watch them, with betterthanexpected video and decent audio. Written by edmund beloin and jack rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a brazilianbound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Earl barrett holloway music by myself follow me on twitter. For most of their teamups, hope and crosby played horny, savvy underdogs, but here theyre a couple of womanhating swells, who suffer a string of mishaps that land them on an exotic island, where theyre taken care of by a friendly native. Road to rio is perhaps as comedic and stunning as their earlier road to morocco. Aresa, solar music rights management, pedl, warner chappell, bmg rights management us, llc, sony atv. Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a brazilianbound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Join the vicechancellor in honouring lily owsley and sophie bray womens hockey gold medallists, paul manning mbe 2000, 2004, 2008 olympic medallist and womens cycling coach at rio 2016 and. Feb 09, 2016 on the road licensed to youtube by the orchard music on behalf of soundtrack classics.
The project was a collaboration between badminton confederation of africa and badminton world federation. May 15, 2018 still, everyone knows all that is happening in the world circa 1947 is in rio so there the boys go as stowaways, of course, after getting chased out of town by an angry circus promoter. The aunt has arranged a marriage for the young beauty. Road to rio was the first of three road pictures jointly produced by stars bing crosby and bob hope. 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. It stars bob hope, bing crosby, dorothy lamour, gale sondergaard and frank faylen. The series was a hit from the start, even though the first film 1940s road to singaporeis one of the weakest. Hope and crosby star as two vaudevillians, who after setting a circus on fire, stow away on a liner bound for brazil. Road is a 2002 indian hindilanguage road thriller film produced by ram gopal varma and directed by rajat mukherjee, starring manoj bajpayee, vivek oberoi and antara mali. Questions the relevance and success of the world summit on sustainable development in johannesburg. The fifth road picture was a more standard comedy than most of the others and paid off at the box office, becoming the topgrossing film of the year.
The film s pace does suffer from phlegmatic dorothy lamour. Nigel devises a plan to poop on the party with the help of gabi. Jan 11, 2017 scenes from road to home starring bob hope and bing crosby. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ships captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the. Mcleod, bing crosby, bob hope, dorothy lamour july 15, 2015 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. With bing crosby, bob hope, dorothy lamour, gale sondergaard.
Road to rio 1947 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Road to rio is a 1947 american semimusical comedy film directed by norman z. As with most of the road films featuring hope and crosby, the plot is a bit on the light side for road to rio. The films pace does suffer from phlegmatic dorothy lamour. Bob hope was under contract to capitol records at this point, so the hopebing crosby duet of the agile city tune, apalachicola, fla, was semirecast on the album by teaming bing with the andrews sisters, already gueststarring in. On the decca records boxed album of selections from the johnny burkejimmy van heusen film score, substitutions were made in the way that two songs were presented. This movie, or any of the classics, couldnt be made these days in hollywood or anywhere else without being filled with foul language, crude and vulgar sophomoric attempts at humor, a lot of cleavage, and a fair amount of lgbt shoved down our throats. An eloped couple arvind vivek oberoi and lakshmi antara mali, en route delhi to jodhpur on a deserted highway, encounter a mad wayfarer, a hitchhiker babu manoj bajpayee who turns out to be a serial psychopath. Even as the longest of the seven films at 100minutes, the film s plot is pretty paper thin and instead fills the space with great gags and several song and dance numbers. This release presents a double feature of musical comedies pairing funnyman bob hope and crooner bing crosby. Road to bali bob hope, bing crosby, and dorothy lamour team up in their sixth road picture, road to bali, which was the only film in the series to be shot in color.
On the road licensed to youtube by the orchard music on behalf of soundtrack classics. Road to rio is a 1947 film about two vaudevillians who stow away on a brazilianbound ocean liner and foil a plot by a hypnotist to marry off her niece. Mcleod and starring bing crosby, bob hope, and dorothy lamour. Le film a t produit avec une excellente qualit graphique, meilleur qualite du son et le plus grand meilleurs acteurs.
It does hold the road template that makes the entire series something of a cheat because basically each road movie is almost the exact same movie over again. Road to rio is a 1947 american comedy film directed by norman z. Road to utopia 1946 road to rio 1947 road to bali 1952 the road to hong kong 1962 each film is not simply a comedy, but a satire of some of the popular film genres of the day, including jungle, arabian nights, alaskan adventure, and high seas. Among the most popular at the boxoffice of the road series, road to rio helped bing crosby retain his number one placement in the list of top box office stars and earned bob hope sixth place on the same list for 1947. Though not as funny as my favorite brunettea hopefinanced production, road to rio is a solid no. Road to rio follows 9 of them who won the chance to play in the 2014 street child world cup. Still, everyone knows all that is happening in the world circa 1947 is in rio so there the boys go as stowaways, of course, after getting chased out of town by an angry circus promoter. The film s sets were designed by the art directors hans sohnle and otto erdmann. Road to rio 1947 is an adventure, comedy movie starring bing crosby and bob hope. Bing crosby, bob hope, dorothy lamour, gale sondergaard, frank faylen, joseph vitale, george meeker. Road to baliroad to rio dvd, 2003 for sale online ebay.
Unfortunately, these four are the only titles not yet on bluray, though i am optimistic. The entire cast of the animated smash rio returns in rio 2, and they are joined by a new flock. On the run from the law again, musicians bob and bing stow away on an ocean liner. Road to rio is directed by norman mcleod and written by edmund beloin and jack rose. Scenes from road to home starring bob hope and bing crosby. Oct 24, 2014 road to rio follows 9 of them who won the chance to play in the 2014 street child world cup. Road to rio program was a program that provided all the possible technical and some financial support to selected african badminton players who have the possibility to qualify for the 2016 summer olympics. Music is by robert emmett and cinematography by ernest laszlo. The nbafueled olympic team usually beats the other countries in blowouts 40 point margins are almost routine. Selections from road to rio is a studio album of phonograph records by bing crosby and the andrews sisters released in 1948 featuring songs that were presented in the american comedy film road to rio.
The road to bali and the road to rio are both fun little pictures, though perhaps not the absolute best of the hopecrosby collaborations. 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. Meet the universitys olympic champions from rio 2016. Even as the longest of the seven films at 100minutes, the films plot is pretty paper thin and instead fills the space with great gags and several song and dance numbers.
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