---
title: 'Road to Rio (1947)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jack Rose'
released: '1947-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/road-to-rio-1947'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039776/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Road to Rio (1947)

1947 · 100 min · Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Road to Rio is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jack Rose](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-rose), [Norman Z. McLeod](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-z-mcleod)
- **Screenplay:** [Jack Rose](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-rose)
- **Producer:** [Jack Rose](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-rose)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Robert E. Dolan](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-e-dolan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Laszlo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-laszlo)
- **Editor:** [Ellsworth Hoagland](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellsworth-hoagland)

## Cast

- [Frank Puglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-puglia)
- [Frank Faylen](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-faylen)
- [Bob Hope](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-hope)
- [Bing Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bing-crosby)
- [George Meeker](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-meeker)
- [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat)
- [Gale Sondergaard](https://cinepixo.com/people/gale-sondergaard)
- [Jerry Colonna](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-colonna)
- [Nestor Paiva](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-paiva)
- [Dorothy Lamour](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-lamour)
- [Stanley Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-andrews)
- [Charles Middleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-middleton)
- [Harry Woods](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-woods)

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