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French financier Paul Reynard (Rathbone) is sentenced to a ten-year term in a South American penal colony for bank fraud. His wife Irene (Gurie) and Paul's faithful servant Dirk (McLaglen) travel to Rio de Janeiro to arrange for Paul's escape.
Rio: Directed by John Brahm. With Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings. A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.
Oct 10, 2021 · Rio (1939) Video Item Preview ... movies. Rio (1939) Topics Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglan, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings, Leo Carillo, Billy Gilbert ...
To remain close to her husband, Irene, accompanied by Dirk, Paul's body guard and valet, travels to Rio de Janeiro, where she finds a job singing in Roberto's Cafe. At the cafe, Irene meets Bill Gregory, an American engineer whose morale has been destroyed by the collapse of a bridge that he was building.
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Apr 18, 2023 · For 1939 audiences, a penny drops: Rio is a riff on the 1934 Stavisky affair, in which a charming scoundrel with political connections created a financial scandal and political mayhem.
Basil Rathbone plays a hustler who ends up in a penal colony off the coast of Rio. Meanwhile, his best friend (Victor McLaglen) and wife (Sigrid Gurie) move to Rio and open up a Casablanca type club, staffed by familiar character actors.
