L'homme de Rio (1964)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Philippe de Broca

Writers:

Daniel Boulanger (writer)
Philippe de Broca (writer)

Release Date:

5 February 1964 (France)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Parachutes... Alligators... Murderers... Women...You think it's easy? "Only For A Great Adventurer Like Me!"

Plot:

Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the...

Plot Keywords:

Museum | Shoeshine Boy | Thief | Brazil | Strangulation

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo	...	Pvt. Adrien Dufourquet
Françoise Dorléac	...	Agnès Villermosa
Jean Servais	...	Prof. Norbert Catalan
Simone Renant	...	Lola, Cabaret Singer
Roger Dumas	...	Lebel, Dufourquet's Buddy
Daniel Ceccaldi	...	Police inspector
Milton Ribeiro	...	Tupac
Ubiracy De Oliveira	...	Sir Winston, shoeshine Boy
Sabu Do Brasil
Adolfo Celi	...	Sr. Mario De Castro
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Louise Chevalier	...	La bonne
Sebastião de Oliveira
Max Elloy	...	Le médecin
Peter Fernandez
Osmar Ferrão
Zé Keti
Hal Linden	...	(English version) (voice: English version)
Annik Malvil
Marie Marc
Nina Myral	...	Aunt
Suzana Negri
Lucien Raimbourg	...	General in Wheelchair
Tarcísio Ramos
Ubirajara Silva
André Tomasi	...	Man

Also Known As:

That Man from Rio (UK) (USA)
L'uomo di Rio (Italy)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

French | English | Portuguese

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Norway:16 | UK:U (1964) (cut) | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Amazonas, Brazil

Company:

Dear Film Produzione

Trivia:

The plane used for the movie was indeed a plane of the then-existent "Pan Air do Brasil". Registration was PP-PDS. This plane was flown later on by a freight airline and is now written off. It remains more or less wrecked at Iquitos, Peru.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Adrien Dufourquet's girlfriend is kidnapped in a slum near Paranoá Lake (in Brasilia), the door of the taxi is let opened. When Dufourquet arrive at the place, riding a bike (in the sequence), the door is closed.

Forget the misleading James Bond comparisons, 'That Man From Rio' is a really entertaining romantic adventure movie with a great cast.

I was a bit flummoxed by the references to 'That Man From Rio' as a "James Bond parody", expecting it to be something like Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies or James Coburn as Flint. It's NOTHING like that. It's actually closer to some of Hitchcock's "average guy"-caught-in-a-web-of-intrigue pictures like 'The 39 Steps' or 'North By Northwest'. Anyway, however you label it it's a really entertaining romantic adventure movie that most people should enjoy. Two things really help it - the locales and the cast. Jean-Paul Belmondo ('Breathless') is one of the coolest and most charismatic leading men to ever stand in front of a movie camera, and he really makes this movie worth watching. It also doesn't hurt that the supporting cast includes the beautiful Francoise Dorleac (Polanski's 'Cul-de-sac') and 'Rififi's Jean Servais. I can't argue that this is anything but pure entertainment, but for what it is it is difficult to beat, and if you just want to have some fun then 'That Man From Rio' is highly recommended.