Adventure · Action
That Man from Rio
Look what they call a quiet week in 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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Top 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"
Directed by
Philippe de Broca
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Wuchak
7/105/18/2023
**_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
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