That Man from Rio
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
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Philippe de Broca
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**_South by Southwest_** After a French woman (Françoise Dorléac.) is kidnapped due to her knowledge of a valuable tribal statue, her beau on leave from the military (Jean-Paul Belmondo) relentlessly pursues her from Paris to Rio de Janeiro to Brasília to the Amazon River and the deep jungles nearby. Jean Servais plays a Parisian professor while Adolfo Celi is on hand as a wealthy industrialist in Brasília. A French-Italian production with subtitles, “That Man from Rio” (1964) is an amusing globetrotting adventure inspired by the Franco-Belgian comics The Adventures of Tintin and intended to be a semi-spoof of flicks like “North by Northwest” (1959), the first two James Bond movies (1962-63) and “Secret of the Incas” (1954). Imagine “North by Northwest” mixed with the fun tone of an Elvis flick minus the songs and you’d have a good idea of this flick. The scenic globetrotting makes the film, especially the scenes in Brasília, the planned capital city of Brazil with its modernist architecture, which was still under construction when this was shot. Another highlight is the constant entertaining chase sequences. It influenced the tone of the 70s & early 80’s Bond movies, which added amusing touches to 007’s globetrotting escapades. It also influenced Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). While entertaining enough, the characters are mostly shallow and uninteresting. Any of the Roger Moore Bond movies is all-around more compelling and rewarding. But this came first and deserves credit. The film runs 1 hours, 50 minutes, and was shot on location in the places cited above. GRADE: B/B-
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Philippe de Broca is the director of That Man from Rio.
The cast of That Man from Rio includes Jean-Paul Belmondo as Adrien Dufourquet, Adolfo Celi as Señor Mario De Castro, Roger Dumas as Lebel, Daniel Ceccaldi as Commissaire, Françoise Dorléac as Agnès Villermosa, Jean Servais as Prof. Norbert Catalan, Simone Renant as Lola, Ubiracy De Oliveira as "Sir Winston", Milton Ribeiro as Tupac, and Lucien Raimbourg as General in wheelchair.
The duration of That Man from Rio is 1h 57 mins.
Yes. You can watch the That Man from Rio trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
That Man from Rio was released on 05 Feb 1964.
That Man from Rio is listed under Adventure, Action, and Comedy on Fanbiz.
That Man from Rio has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "**_South by Southwest_** After a French woman (Françoise Dorléac.) is kidnapped due to her knowledge of a valuable tribal statue, her beau on leave from the military (Jean-Pa..."
