AdventureActionComedy

That Man from Rio

- Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

Release Date : 1964-02-05

Language :FrenchPortuguese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Productions Artistes AssociésLes Films ArianeDear Film

Production Country : BrazilFranceItaly

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Adrien Dufourquet

Original Name : Jean-Paul Belmondo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Agnès Villermosa

Original Name : Françoise Dorléac

Gender : Female

Character Name : Prof. Norbert Catalan

Original Name : Jean Servais

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lola

Original Name : Simone Renant

Gender : Female

Character Name : Señor Mario De Castro

Original Name : Adolfo Celi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lebel

Original Name : Roger Dumas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commissaire

Original Name : Daniel Ceccaldi

Gender : Male

Character Name : "Sir Winston"

Original Name : Ubiracy De Oliveira

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tupac

Original Name : Milton Ribeiro

Gender : Male

Character Name : General in wheelchair

Original Name : Lucien Raimbourg

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Robert Blome

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Louise Chevalier

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Max Elloy

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Maurice Hartwig

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Zé Keti

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Hal Linden

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Annik Malvil

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Marie Marc

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Nina Myral

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : André Tomasi

Gender : Male

Reviews

Wuchak

@Wuchak

2023-05-18

**_South by Southwest_** After a French woman (Françoise Dorléac.) is kidnapped due to her knowledge of a valuable tribal statue, her beau on leave from the military (Jean-Paul Belmondo) relentlessly pursues her from Paris to Rio de Janeiro to Brasília to the Amazon River and the deep jungles nearby. Jean Servais plays a Parisian professor while Adolfo Celi is on hand as a wealthy industrialist in Brasília. A French-Italian production with subtitles, “That Man from Rio” (1964) is an amusing globetrotting adventure inspired by the Franco-Belgian comics The Adventures of Tintin and intended to be a semi-spoof of flicks like “North by Northwest” (1959), the first two James Bond movies (1962-63) and “Secret of the Incas” (1954). Imagine “North by Northwest” mixed with the fun tone of an Elvis flick minus the songs and you’d have a good idea of this flick. The scenic globetrotting makes the film, especially the scenes in Brasília, the planned capital city of Brazil with its modernist architecture, which was still under construction when this was shot. Another highlight is the constant entertaining chase sequences. It influenced the tone of the 70s & early 80’s Bond movies, which added amusing touches to 007’s globetrotting escapades. It also influenced Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). While entertaining enough, the characters are mostly shallow and uninteresting. Any of the Roger Moore Bond movies is all-around more compelling and rewarding. But this came first and deserves credit. The film runs 1 hours, 50 minutes, and was shot on location in the places cited above. GRADE: B/B-