Road to Rio

Road to Rio
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNorman McLeod
Written by
Screenplay byBarney Dean
Produced byDaniel Dare
Starring
CinematographyErnest Laszlo
Edited byEllsworth Hoagland
Music byRobert Emmett Dolan
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Bing Crosby Productions
Hope Enterprises
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 1947 (1947-12-25)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.4 million
Box office$4.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)

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.