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Road to Rio (1947): This fifth movie is the series has a pair of vaudeville entertainers, Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) and 'Hot Lips' Barton (Bob Hope) running from a circus owner after accidentally setting his show on fire. They stow away on a luxury liner where they meet a gorgeous heiress, Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour) who is in trouble. She's going to Rio to marry her guardian's son, and though she loves him, something doesn't feel right. Always willing to help a woman in distress, the boys come to her aid and help fend off the attacks from her aunt, who is hypnotizing her.
Road to Bali (1952): The next film in the
Road to Rio (1947): This fifth movie is the series has a pair of vaudeville entertainers, Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) and 'Hot Lips' Barton (Bob Hope) running from a circus owner after accidentally setting his show on fire. They stow away on a luxury liner where they meet a gorgeous heiress, Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour) who is in trouble. She's going to Rio to marry her guardian's son, and though she loves him, something doesn't feel right. Always willing to help a woman in distress, the boys come to her aid and help fend off the attacks from her aunt, who is hypnotizing her.
Road to Bali (1952): The next film in the series (and second to last...final movie in the sequence, The Road to Hong Kong, wouldn't be filmed until ten years later) this adventure features Harold Gridley (Bob Hope) and George Cochran (Bing Crosby) as a pair of vaudeville entertainers who have to leg it after promising several women in an Australian town that they'll marry them. Ending up in a port town they take jobs as divers to keep body and soul together. Traveling to a nearby island, they are hired to find a treasure that the princess' (Dorothy Lamour) father lost at sea. A giant octopus, a traitorous noble, and a chest full of jewels later, the two men find themselves on another island, still fighting over the beautiful princess.
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Manufacturer: Bci Eclipse
Release date: 15 February 2005
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0787364495290 UPC: 787364495290
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