Rio Rita (1942 film)
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- For other uses of Rio Rita, see Rio Rita (disambiguation).
| Rio Rita | |
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 Rio Rita Theatrical Poster |
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| Directed by | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Produced by | Pandro Berman |
| Written by | Richard Connell Gladys Lehman |
| Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Kathryn Grayson John Carroll |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Editing by | Ben Lewis |
| Distributed by | MGM Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 1942 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 91 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000-$900,000 |
| Preceded by | Ride 'Em Cowboy (1941) |
| Followed by | Pardon My Sarong (1942) |
| IMDb profile | |
Rio Rita is a 1942 comedy film starring Abbott and Costello.
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[edit] Plot
Nazi spies have infiltrated the Hotel Vista del Rio, a resort on the Mexican border. They plan to use a radio broadcast by a famous guest, Ricardo Montera (John Carroll), to transmit coded messages to their fellow saboteurs. Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello) are two stowawyas in Montera's car, who steal a basket of apples that are really miniature radios used by the foreign agents. Rita Winslow (Kathryn Grayson), the hotels owner and childhood sweethear of Montera, hire them as house detectives. The boys discover the Nazi codebook and give it to Montera. They are then kidnapped and left in a room with a bomb that is set to explode. However, they manage to escape and Wishy plants the bomb in one of the Nazi's pockets. Meanwhile the broadcast has begun and Montera, refusing to take part in the treason, fights the Nazi's until the Texas Rangers arrive. They Nazi's begin their escape in a car, but the bomb that Wishy planted explodes, thereby ending the threat.
[edit] Trivia
- It was based upon the 1927 Flo Ziegfeld Broadway musical, which had previously been made into a 1929 film that starred the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey.
- It was filmed from November 10, 1941 through January 14, 1942.
- During production, Abbott and Costello had their hand and footprints enshrined at Graumann's Chinese Theater on the night of Dec. 8, 1941.
- This is the first of three films that Abbott and Costello made on loan to MGM Pictures while under contract to Universal, the other two being Lost in a Harem and Abbott and Costello in Hollywood.
- Joe Kirk, who later played Mr. Bacciagalupe in The Abbott and Costello Show has a small role. Kirk later became the Costello's brother-in-law.
- It was during this production that Abbott and Costello signed a new agreement regarding their partnership. Previously any deal that they signed required Abbott to be paid $10 more than Costello. After this new deal, signed on January 9, 1942, Costello would now earn 60 percent of their salary with Abbott taking only 40 percent.[1]
[edit] External link
- Rio Rita at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Reference
- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
One Night in the Tropics • Buck Privates • In The Navy • Hold That Ghost • Keep 'Em Flying • Ride 'Em Cowboy • Rio Rita • Pardon My Sarong • Who Done It? • It Ain't Hay • Hit The Ice • In Society • Lost in a Harem • Here Come The Co-Eds • The Naughty Nineties • Abbott and Costello in Hollywood • Little Giant • The Time of Their Lives • Buck Privates Come Home • The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap • The Noose Hangs High • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein • Mexican Hayride • Africa Screams • Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff • Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion • Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man • Comin' Round The Mountain • Jack and the Beanstalk • Lost in Alaska • Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd • Abbott and Costello Go to Mars • Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops • Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy • Dance With Me Henry • The World of Abbott and Costello
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