Road to Rio which continues to credit CPT as the copyright holder, as evidenced by recent video releases by BCI Eclipse, and now, as of the present, Shout! Factory (under Fremantle's license). The film was preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. 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
Road to Bali by Lamour. Filming started on April 21, 1952 and continued until July of the same year. "Road to Bali" was a co-production of Bing Crosby Enterprises, Hope Enterprises and Paramount. The giant squid that threatens Bob Hope in an underwater scene was previously seen attacking Ray Milland in the Paramount production "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The erupting volcano climax was taken directly from the Paramount production "Aloma of the South Seas" (1941), also starring Lamour. In keeping with the film's initial setting of Melbourne, Australia, many of the jokes contain references to Argyle socks,