That Man From Rio

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That Man From Rio

1964,

1h 54m,

Comedy/

Drama

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79%

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500+ Ratings

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14 Reviews

79%

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500+ Ratings

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

J.H. Fenwick

Sight & Sound

Mar 31, 2020

A loving pastiche of every chase film one can remember.

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Nov 27, 2014

3/4

It's fun, in an imperialist, colonialist, patronizing, exotic-marginalized-foreigners way.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Aug 26, 2014

3.5/4

We don't think of Belmondo as an action star per se, but that's what he is here, smirking like Steve McQueen and managing to keep a cigarette clamped between his lips even when he's navigating hairpin turns on a motorbike.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Aug 15, 2024

C

A preposterous madcap action travelogue farce.

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Judith Crist

New York Herald Tribune

Aug 15, 2022

The chase goes on and on, the joke is prolonged beyond its juiciest and That Man from Rio passes its peak of fun not too long after the first of its two hours.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Oct 28, 2020

3.5/5

Surprisingly, the film works quite well on its own terms, starring the bemused New Wave star Belmondo, and it's interesting to note how Spielberg quite heavily plundered several of de Broca's set pieces for eventual re-use.

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Theodore W

Aug 28, 2017

Relatively funny movie with some great moments, but still not quite making it. I especially liked the very last minutes (trying to tell this without spoiling anything) when the couple are running from explosions, the cause of them and that family by the roadside. I think that was by far the best part of the movie and had stood time really well. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the later American movie Romancing the Stone (1984) had got its inspiration from this movie. They had so many similarities between.

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Poe S

Mar 4, 2017

A bit far fetched, but a fun action comedy. A bit too long.

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Philippe de Broca

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Jean-Paul Belmondo

Pvt. Adrien Dufourquet

Françoise Dorléac

Agnès Villermosa

Jean Servais

Prof. Norbert Catalan

Adolfo Celi

Señor Mario De Castro

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Synopsis

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

Director: Philippe de Broca
Producer: Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine
Screenwriter: Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Distributor: Lopert Pictures Corp., United Artists
Production Co: Les Films Ariane, Les Productions Artistes Associés, Dear Film Produzione
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 1964, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $35.1K
Runtime: 1h 54m
Sound Mix: Mono

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