Road to Rio Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. "Road to Rio" was the fifth of the ""Road to …"" series. Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out-of-work musicians, travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from
Road to Morocco along the way and tossing acid wisecracks at each other without a thought for reason or sense...The short of it is that "Road to Morocco" is a daffy, laugh-drafting film. And you’ll certainly agree with the camel which, at one point, offers the gratuitous remark, “This is the screwiest picture I was ever in.” "Variety" commented: "Crosby, Hope and Lamour have done it again. Their click in "Road to Singapore" and "Road to Zanzibar" is eclipsed by "Road to Morocco"... Crosby, of course, is still more or less straighting for Hope’s incessantly steaming gags. The two have never teamed better,