Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
Acting
Hope & Crosby's improvised banter steals every scene.
Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Bing Crosby
Scat Sweeney
Bob Hope
Hot Lips Barton
Dorothy Lamour
Lucia Maria de Andrade
Gale Sondergaard
Catherine Vail
Frank Faylen
Trigger
Joseph Vitale
Tony
George Meeker
Sherman Mallory
Frank Puglia
Rodrigues
Nestor Paiva
Cardoso
Robert Barrat
Johnson
Stanley Andrews
Capt. Harmon
Harry Woods
Ship's Purser
Laverne Andrews
Laverne Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the fifth 'Road' picture; Hope and Crosby ad-libbed so much that the studio stopped giving them finished scripts.
Dorothy Lamour's 'native girl' role aged about as well as milk, but she reportedly negotiated better pay than most leading ladies of the era.
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