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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.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- John Brahm
- 1939-09-29
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.
- John Brahm, Phillip Karlstein
- Basil Rathbone
Overview. 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.
“The world is all wrong. There is no music. There is no laughter.” Such dark sentiment, unusual for a 1930’s film, colors the world of John Brahm’s Rio and its anti-heroic protagonist Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone), a powerful financier whose criminal shenanigans land him in a penal colony off the South American coast. Robert Cummings ...
Rio is a 1939 American film directed by John Brahm, starring Basil Rathbone and Victor McLaglen.
