Flying Down to Rio
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Flying Down to Rio

"Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!"

1933 1h 29m ★ 6.2 (70 votes) Released

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Director

Thornton Freeland

Screenplay

Cyril Hume

Screenplay

H.W. Hanemann

Screenplay

Erwin S. Gelsey

Rating
6.2
Runtime
89 min

Production

RKO Radio Pictures RKO Radio Pictures

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dancingairplanelove trianglerio de janeirofiancépilotorchestramusicaltap dancingbeautiful womansingingblack and whiteband singershowgirlpre-codebiplanebandleaderaerial stuntsdance bandforced landingromantic triangledancing girls

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