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THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo ducks poisoned darts, outwits mad scientists, and narrowly escapes a Brazilian crocodile in Director Philippe de Broca's wonderfully wacky distillation of all the adventure movies ever made...
That Man from Rio. Sssh. Out of a shadow a shadow glides, a sinister shape that stands up like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum...
...ahead, groan. Up to this point, Rio unreels like a bad French imitation of the standard filler thriller Hollywood produces for the shrunken-head set. But beyond this point, groans turn to giggles and giggles to guffaws. Made by Philippe de Broca, a young French director (The Five-Day Lover) of stunning esprit, the film turns out to be a clumsy but almost continually hilarious parody of the typical next-earthquake-please, throw-away-the-script-boys-this-is-an-action picture...
Chases the trio with brio to Rio...
More and more retired U.S. citizens are discovering a bargain dolce vita across the Rio Grande. And the Mexi can government is doing its best to help the process of discovery. This month speakers from the National Council of Tourism, headed by ex-president Miguel Aleman, are campaigning throughout North America to build up Mexico's industria de los viejitos-the oldster industry-which the council estimates would be worth $400 million a year if Mexico could attract only 1% of the annual retirees in the U.S. and Canada...