That Man from Rio (1964)

02/05/1964Adventure, Action, Comedy1h 56m
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Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Jean-Paul Belmondo

    Adrien Dufourquet

  2. Cast 1

    Françoise Dorléac

    Agnès Villermosa

  3. Cast 1

    Jean Servais

    Prof. Norbert Catalan

  4. Cast 1

    Simone Renant

    Lola

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    Adolfo Celi

    Señor Mario De Castro

  6. Cast 1

    Roger Dumas

    Lebel

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    Daniel Ceccaldi

    Commissaire

  8. Ubiracy De Oliveira

    "Sir Winston"

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    Milton Ribeiro

    Tupac

**_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 intende...