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    L'Homme de Rio

    Poster of the movie L'Homme de Rio
    1964     Action comedy    
    Italy/France
    1h 52min
    Original lang: French

    A blow dart-wielding thug snatches a rare statuette from the Musée de l'Homme; anthropologist Jean Servais (Rififi) is kidnapped in broad Parisian daylight; serviceman Jean-Paul Belmondo begins his 8-day leave by changing to civvies in a Métro entrance and witnesses fiancée Françoise Dorléac (Catherine Deneuve's sister, killed in a car accident 3 years later) getting kidnapped herself - and then the chase begins: by motorcycle, shoe leather, flight to Rio de Janeiro sans ticket or passport, airport baggage carrier, cable car, pink car complete with green stars and a rumble seat, water skies, Amazon river boat, seaplane, jungle vine... all shot in breathtaking widescreen and color. Even as Dorléac, rescued, is kidnapped again, Belmondo performs his own blood-curdling stunts against that sugar loaf Rio skyline and across that under-construction unearthly architecture of Brasilia (even parachuting almost into the jaws of a hungry croc).

    Directed byPhilippe de Broca
    Written byJean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine
    CompanyUnited ArtistsUnited ArtistsUnited Artists

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    Jean-Paul Belmondo
    Françoise Dorléac
    Hal Linden
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