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Director:
Writers:
Lou Brock (story)
Anne Caldwell (play)
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Release Date:
29 December 1933 (USA) more
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A musical extravaganza staged in the clouds! more
Plot:
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests... more | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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Grade A Entertainment! An Underrated Gem! more (33 total)

Cast

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Dolores del Rio ... Belinha De Rezende (as Dolores Del Rio)
Gene Raymond ... Roger Bond
Raul Roulien ... Julio Ribeiro

Ginger Rogers ... Honey Hale

Fred Astaire ... Fred Ayres
Blanche Friderici ... Doña Elena de Rezende
Walter Walker ... Señor Carlos De Rezende
Etta Moten ... The Carioca Singer
Roy D'Arcy ... Member Greek Gambling Syndicate
Maurice Black ... Member Greek Gambling Syndicate
Armand Kaliz ... Member Greek Gambling Syndicate
Paul Porcasi ... The Mayor
Reginald Barlow ... Alfredo Vianna, The Banker
Eric Blore ... Mr. Butterbass, Asst. Hotel Manager
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Runtime:
89 min
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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Originally conceived by RKO as a vehicle for Dolores del Rio, this film is most notable for its star-making pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two relative unknowns smoked up the screen in a dance number called "The Carioca" that generated such a positive response form critics and fans that they were eventually reunited in nine subsequent films. more
Quotes:
Fred Ayres: Nothing of the kind. He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.
Honey Hale: And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.
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16 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Grade A Entertainment! An Underrated Gem!, 11 November 2001
10/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

Flying Down to Rio will always be best known for being the movie that first paired Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but, believe me, its worth goes far beyond just that stunning accomplishment. The lead actor is Gene Raymond, who was one of the funniest actors in early Hollywood. My other favorite Raymond movie is Hitchcock's only foray into straight comedy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, where he starred opposite Carole Lombard and was more than up to it. Raymond's female opposite here is Delores de Rio, an actress with whom I am unfamiliar, but, man, is she a beauty. Astaire plays Raymond's best friend and cohort and Rogers plays a singer who tours with them. The film is wonderfully witty and actually very inventive. The editor goes a little crazy with the different types of swipes he uses throughout the film, but they're still neat. It doesn't bother me much that the filmmakers' experiments don't always work. I'm just happy they were trying new things. The cinematography is often great and much more unique than in other RKO musicals. The music is marvelous, especially the show-stopping Carioca (as opposed to Karaoke!), which seems to last forever, but in a good way! This is the number with the Astaire and Rogers dance. The other dancers in the scene are also wonderful, and the editing of that number is particularly amazing. The climactic musical sequence is as amazing as it is silly: seemingly hundreds of women dancing on the wings of flying planes. It's meant to be entertainment for the people below, but, well, the intricate movements of the girls could never have been seen on the ground (reminiscent of the Busby Berkeley number in 42nd Street where the camera shoots the dancers' pattern from above). Again, the editing here is simply remarkable. I can only imagine that the daring stunts perpetrated in the scene, though obviously fake, would have stunned the hell out of an audience in 1933! Today, in the 21st Century, Flying Down to Rio plays as one of the greatest pieces of fluff ever produced. 10/10.

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