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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, Irving Pichel.
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.
Rio (1939) 75 min. b&w. Rio is the story of the downfall of a crooked financier, played by Basil Rathbone. The film opens in Paris. A group of bankers on the verge on ruin are looking for Paul Reynard, but he's not there. He's in London. On the phone he tells them he has obtained a loan, and they are relieved--for the moment.
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.
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 ...
