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That Man from Rio ( 1964 ) AKA L'homme de Rio
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an
Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap
the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, ( Françoise
Dorléac ) the daughter of a murdered
man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her
sweetheart, Adrien, (Jean-Paul Belmondo)
an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too
is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot
pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy),
foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must
traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of
his week's leave.
LANGUAGE ENGLISH/FRENCH....SUBTITLES ENGLISH/KOREAN .....RUNNING TIME 111 MINS.....NTSC
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Film is great and the delivery was astoundingly quick. BUT!!!! This DVD has NO English audio track. Audio is French and for some reason Russian. There are English subtitles. But it's not the same. Still waiting for a decent version in English and German.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Considering all the talent involved and its huge international success, L'Homme de Rio aka That Man from Rio is a bit of a damp squib that never offers half as much fun as it promises. One of Philippe de Broca and Jean-Paul Belmondo's crowd pleasers and heavily influenced by the Tintin books, it's a surprisingly lazy affair carried out with a rather leaden touch, especially badly edited with some poor photography that doesn't even make much of the opportunities its exotic location offers. Belmondo's the AWOL soldier who follows his kidnapped girlfriend Francoise Dorleac to Rio, where - after what seems like an eternity of exposition - the bad guys want her to find one of three rare statues hidden by her father that are the key to the location of a fabulous treasure.
Despite Cyrano de Bergerac's Jean-Paul Rappeneau being among the quartet of screenwriters who were rewarded with an Oscar nomination for their efforts, the script's a particularly clodhopping affair, the two stars having little in the way of chemistry as they squabble their way through South America, Dorleac so severely overestimating her charm that her increasingly unlikeable heroine simply doesn't seem worth the bother of rescuing and Belmondo in particular wildly overcompensating with bullish overconfidence that tramples over the script's better moments. Even his usual daring stunts aren't always showcased as well as they could be. Things pick up a bit in the second half, but it's never less than heavy going. Still, JFK seemed to like it...
The NTSC DVD isn't quite top quality, but it's acceptable - especially considering that, to date, it's the only version available with English subtitles.
Despite Cyrano de Bergerac's Jean-Paul Rappeneau being among the quartet of screenwriters who were rewarded with an Oscar nomination for their efforts, the script's a particularly clodhopping affair, the two stars having little in the way of chemistry as they squabble their way through South America, Dorleac so severely overestimating her charm that her increasingly unlikeable heroine simply doesn't seem worth the bother of rescuing and Belmondo in particular wildly overcompensating with bullish overconfidence that tramples over the script's better moments. Even his usual daring stunts aren't always showcased as well as they could be. Things pick up a bit in the second half, but it's never less than heavy going. Still, JFK seemed to like it...
The NTSC DVD isn't quite top quality, but it's acceptable - especially considering that, to date, it's the only version available with English subtitles.
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I love this movie and have been trying to get hold of it for ages. I understand that it's relatively slow compared to today's high octane adventure movies but as a kid I was mesmerised and found it extremely fast paced. Watching it again, it's still great fun. I mean come on, there can't be that many movies where the actor does that much running.
So I would have still given this movie a five star rating had it not been for the audio. Because it didn't mention anything in the product description on Amazon, I was a bit worried it may be French with subtitles but was pleasantly suprised when it said English / French audio on the box - only to then be bitterly disappointed when the actual audio options on the DVD were French and a Russian version where some dude monotonosly talks over the French soundtrack which is still audible in the background.
It really would have been good if that had been made clear in the product description plus one does wonder about the source when packaging and content differ in that way. BUT if you are interested in the French version with English subtitles, the quality was actually quite good.
So I would have still given this movie a five star rating had it not been for the audio. Because it didn't mention anything in the product description on Amazon, I was a bit worried it may be French with subtitles but was pleasantly suprised when it said English / French audio on the box - only to then be bitterly disappointed when the actual audio options on the DVD were French and a Russian version where some dude monotonosly talks over the French soundtrack which is still audible in the background.
It really would have been good if that had been made clear in the product description plus one does wonder about the source when packaging and content differ in that way. BUT if you are interested in the French version with English subtitles, the quality was actually quite good.
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