The Road to Rio (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The way to Rio |
| Original title | Road to Rio |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Z. McLeod |
| script |
Edmund Beloin , Jack Rose |
| production | Daniel Dare |
| music | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| camera | Ernest Laszlo |
| cut | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| occupation | |
And without mentioning in the opening credits: Arthur Q. Bryan , George Chandler , Gino Corrado , Tom Dugan , Franklyn Farnum , Brandon Hurst , Tor Johnson , George Lloyd , Charles Middleton , Marquita Rivera , Raul Roulien and Ray Teal | |
The way to Rio (Original title: Road to Rio ) is an American comedy film in black and white from 1947. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod based on a script by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose . The main roles were played by Bob Hope , Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour . It is the fifth film in the series Der Weg nach… .
action
The two musicians Hot Lips Barton and Scat Sweeney find an engagement in a circus on the run from the angry fathers of young girls, whom they have promised a wedding. Hot Lips is supposed to ride a bike on a high wire. Since he's never done this before, things go wrong very quickly. Hot Lips can hold onto the rope, but the falling aids set the entire circus on fire. Hot Lips and Scat flee and are followed by the ringmaster who wants his money back. They are forced to hide as stowaways on a ship to Brazil . They come on board disguised as meat suppliers, with Hot Lips representing half of the beef and therefore hanging in the refrigerator for the first few hours. Later the two stay in a lifeboat, where they become aware of the crying Lucia Maria de Andrade, who wants to jump overboard with the intention of suicide. Scat can stop her and falls in love with her. Her problem: she is supposed to marry Sherman Mallory, whom she does not love and who is only after her lands. He is supported by his sister Catherine Vail, who supervises Lucia and has the two thugs Trigger and Tony available. In addition, Catherine controls Lucia through hypnosis and thus causes her to betray Scat and Hot Lips to the ship's command. Until she catches the two of them after a long chase, Lucia comes to and gets Captain Harmon to accept the two of them into the ship's orchestra, where they can earn the money for the crossing.
On arrival in Rio, Scat and Hot Lips smuggle Lucia off board in a double bass case . They are staying with the club owner Cardoso because they are playing for him to lead an American music group. They do this by engaging a group of three from the street and teaching each of the three a sentence in English. When the "group" first appeared, however, Catherine and Sherman were in the audience. Lucia wants to talk to them briefly and is again hypnotized. That's why she reveals to Cardoso what the American group is all about. When Catherine and Sherman leave, they take Lucia with them; Scat and Hot Lips are fired from Cardoso. Soon Catherine approaches Scat and Hot Lips and offers them $ 10,000 to forget about Lucia and leave Brazil. She invites the two to a meeting, but uses hypnosis to get them to want to fight a duel against each other. To do this, Trigger and Tony take them to a park and then leave. Only at the last moment do the two come to again. In search of Lucia, who is to marry Sherman in Campinas , the two meet the lawyer Rodrigues, who also wants to prevent the wedding. He tells them about papers they are supposed to steal from Catherine and give to the prefect of the area who is supposed to conduct the wedding. Rodrigues pays them the flight too. At the wedding party, Scat and Hot Lips manage to get the papers. After a chase, in the course of which they can hypnotize Trigger and Tony and turn them off with their patty cake trick, they manage to hand over the papers and stop the wedding.
Back in the USA, at Niagara Falls , Scat comes into Hot Lip's room and learns that he has married Lucia. He doesn't understand this until he watches Hot Lips hypnotize Lucia.
production
Production companies
The Road to Rio was produced by Paramount Pictures , Bing Crosby Enterprises, and Hope Enterprises . It was the first of three films in The Path To ... series co-produced by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby .
Cast & Crew
The main roles were played, as in all films up to then in the The Road to ... series, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour . For Oscar winner Gale Sondergaard , it was one of the last films before it hit Hollywood's blacklist .
The Wiere Brothers , the three brothers Herbert, Harry and Sylvester Vetter, who fled National Socialism and became successful comedians in the USA , had a highly acclaimed appearance as the three Brazilian musicians in The Way to Rio . Jerry Colonna , who appeared on the radio with Bob Hope, had a cameo as a member of the cavalry group , which is faded in several times towards the end of the film.
For the costumes in Road to Rio was Edith Head responsible for the Design Hans Dreier , Earl Hedrick , Sam Comer and Ray Moyer . The mask belonged to Wally Westmore
Filming
According to the American Film Institute, the shooting of Der Weg nach Rio ran from the beginning of January to the beginning of March 1947, but according to contemporary newspapers it started as early as December 1946. The Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin states December 26, 1946. The shooting took place in Paramount Studios, only two days were spent outside on location .
music
The score was by Robert Emmett Dolan , who received an Oscar nomination for it .
As with the other Der Weg nach ... films, the songs play a major role in the film. Five songs were written for the film by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Johnny Burke (text). You Don't Have to Know the Language was Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters' first joint appearance in a film. In Der Weg nach Rio , the song is performed at a show by the ship orchestra. According to the American Film Institute , the song became a huge hit for the Andrews Sisters. But Beautiful takes on the role of the love song in The Road to Rio , which Bing Crosby sings across from Dorothy Lamour in every film in the series. This happens when the two, shortly after getting to know each other, go for a walk on the ship. This song was also successful, it took second place in Variety 's list of hits with the largest radio audience of 1948. There are also Apalachicola, FLA , the song that Bob Hope and Bing Crosby perform at the beginning of the film in the circus, and Experience , sung by Dorothy Lamour during the performance at the club in Rio. These four songs were released on a plate by Decca Records in 1948 with partially changed interpreters . The fifth song, For What? was not sung in the film.
In addition, Der Weg nach Rio uses the famous song Brazil by Ary Barroso in the opening credits and in the film music.
Performances
The Way to Rio premiered on December 25, 1947. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures .
The German premiere was on November 21, 1949.
synchronization
The following were involved in the synchronization of Der Weg nach Rio :
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Lips Barton | Bob Hope | Georg Thomalla |
| Scat Sweeney | Bing Crosby | Paul Klinger |
| Maria de Andrade | Dorothy Lamour | Friedel Schuster |
reception
Reviews
The Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes gives The Road to Rio a whopping 100% with six evaluated reviews; However, the average rating of 6.8 out of 10 is less impressive.
Compared to the earlier films in the series, The Way to Rio is less smooth and also less crazy, not always quite as funny, but longer. It may not be the best of the films, but it is one of the most memorable. Despite everything, it is a first-class comedy and sometimes better than anything else Bob Hope and Bing Crosby have done. The content is nothing special, it should only give the opportunity for jokes and songs. However, Derek Winnert thinks the film has more content than the others in the series. Fortunately, that doesn't bother the comedy. It is pointed out that the film has jokes that require detailed knowledge of the post-war era in Hollywood to understand and are therefore difficult to understand for modern cinema viewers.
The Wiere brothers are mentioned several times in the reviews. They would support the main roles very well with the humor, with Craig Butler pointing out the jokes with the very limited English vocabulary. Jerry Colonna's cameo was also worth a mention for some reviewers.
Craig Butler also commented on the songs in the film. He highlighted But Beautiful , and what Dorothy Lamour makes of Experience . He particularly likes You Don't Have to Know the Language . PS Harrison also liked the songs, but saw no hit potential in them.
Financial result
According to Variety, The Road to Rio was the top-grossing film of 1948, with $ 4.5 million in profits in the US and Canada. It was also the top-rated film in the series The Road to ... , but just before The Road to Utopia . Production cost $ 2.4 million.
nomination
Robert Emmett Dolan was at the Oscars 1948 in the category Best Original Score (Music Film) nominated. However, the Oscar went to Alfred Newman for It Began in Schneider's Opera House .
Web links
- Road to Rio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Road to Rio (1947). In: American Film Institute . Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ^ A b c Hal Erickson : Road to Rio (1947). In: All Movie. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Graeme Clark: Road to Rio. In: The Spinning Image. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ^ Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly: Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America . Psychology Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2 , Wiere Brothers, pp. 1201 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d Michael Anderson: Hope & Crosby hit the Road Together for the Fifth Time. In: ZekeFilm. September 5, 2017, accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Production & Release Record . In: Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin . January 6, 1947, p. 25 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ^ All "Roads" Lead to Laughter . In: Picture Show Annual . 1949, p. 106 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ^ The Pearlman Annual Survey of Song Hits with the Largest Radio Audiences . In: Variety . January 5, 1949, p. 174 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ^ Bing Crosby With The Andrews Sisters - Road To Rio. In: Discogs . Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas S. Hischak: musicals in film: A Guide to the Genre . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2016, ISBN 978-1-4408-4423-2 , pp. 183 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ a b The way to Rio. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ The Road to Rio (1947). In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ The way to Rio at Rotten Tomatoes (English) , accessed on September 2, 2018.
- ^ A b c d e Craig Butler: Road to Rio (1947). In: All Movie. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f “Road to Rio” with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour . In: Harrison's Reports . November 22, 1947, p. 187 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c TMP: At the Paramount . In: The New York Times . February 19, 1948 ( online on the New York Times pages [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ John Sinnott: Road To Rio / The Road To Bali, The (HD DVD) (HD DVD). In: DVD Talk. January 8, 2008, accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Derek Winnert: Road to Rio *** (1947, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard) - Classic Movie Review 6605. In: Derek Winnert. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Road to Rio (Songs) . In: Variety . November 12, 1947, p. 8 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Top Grossers of 1948 . In: Variety . January 5, 1949, p. 46 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).
- ↑ All-time top grossers . In: Variety . January 9, 1952, p. 4 (English, online at Archive.org [accessed September 2, 2018]).