That Man from Rio

1964 • 1h 57m •

Adventure Action Comedy

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★ 7.3/10

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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.

"Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!"

Top Billed Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Adrien Dufourquet

Françoise Dorléac

Agnès Villermosa

Jean Servais

Prof. Norbert Catalan

Simone Renant

Lola

Adolfo Celi

Señor Mario De Castro

Roger Dumas

Lebel

Daniel Ceccaldi

Commissaire

Ubiracy De Oliveira

"Sir Winston"

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2023-05-18

**_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...