Word: rio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...
...Eastern Air Lines' low-cost Boston-New York-Washington shuttle was considered a remarkable innovation when it was started in 1961. The Brazilians have been doing it since 1959, with three airlines shuttling between Rio and Sāo Paulo at the rate of one flight every 20 minutes during rush hours...
...just as Joāo and Getz were about to launch a countrywide tour, Joāo developed a "cramp in his playing arm" and had to bow out. Astrud replaced him and suddenly found herself a star. Astrud is herself a girl from Ipanema, a section of Rio de Janeiro's sparkling beach front, who came to the U.S. two years ago with Joāo. Last week, with the single edition of The Girl from Ipanema burning up the teen-age record market, Astrud Gilberto was trying to get used to her new billing-at least...
...sniffling, please. This isn't a romantic tragedy. It's a costume comedy. It was made by Philippe de Broca, the same French director who recently employed Belmondo in a travesty of a thriller called That Man from Rio, and while Cartouche is seldom as funny as That Man, it nevertheless comes off as a careless but carefree and occasionally hilarious parody of a period piece...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress...