About Road to Rio
Road to Rio is a comedy, adventure, music, romance film released in 1947 exploring themes of ship, rio de janeiro, musical, black and white, road movie, buddy comedy. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, it stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.