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 ... "Road to..." movie was planned, titled "Road to the Fountain of Youth"; however, Crosby died that year of a heart attack. In 1947, Astor Pictures released a compilation film of several of Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects called "The Road to Hollywood" to evoke the series. The United States Navy also commissioned Hope and Crosby to produce the 1945 short film "Road to Home". In Sweden, the first film was given the title "Två glada sjömän går iland" ("Two Jolly Sailors Go Ashore"), which led to the subsequent films in the series all being given a title beginning with "Två