Flying Down to Rio
by Thornton Freeland
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Actor: Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Raul RoulienDirector: Thornton Freeland
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Lou Brock
Writer: Lou Brock
Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Writer: Anne Caldwell
Writer: Cyril Hume
Writer: Erwin S. Gelsey
Writer: H.W. Hanemann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of Flying Down to Rio
Movie Review: Great choreography
Summary: 5 Stars
You don't see movies like this any longer. Sure it's dated but the innocence but none-the-less sexiness is here for sure. A Great old time movie.
Summary of Flying Down to Rio
Carefree When a marriage-shy girl falls in love with her psychoanalyst, the result is one of the wittiest, most enjoyable of all the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics! Add great dance numbers, Rogers' deft comic timing, and a score by the legendary Irving Berlin, and you have a true film treasure. The story revolves around the fickle Amanda Cooper (Rogers) who has postponed her wedding so often that her fianci (Ralph Bellamy) sends her best friend Tony Flagg (Astaire), a psychoanalyst, to treat her. In spite of hypnosis and assorted other wacky attempts at remedies, Amanda falls in love with Tony, and the rest is musical-comedy history. The dance numbers, choreographed by Astaire and Hermes Pan, a dazzling beyond belief particularly Astaire's astonishing golf-routine!In 1933, RKO Pictures had the bright idea of pairing Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond for their new musical blockbuster, Flying Down to Rio. The film was a smash, but not for the reasons anyone expected. The fourth- and fifth-billed stars were an RKO bit player and a Broadway man breaking into Hollywood. Their names were Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and their pairing in this and eight subsequent RKO films would rewrite cinematic history. Most of Rio's screen time is spent on a humdrum romantic triangle involving Del Rio, Raymond, and Raul Roulien, but Fred (as Fred Ayres) and Ginger (as Honey Hayes) are still able to establish many of the trademarks of their later films. Ginger fronts the band (with Fred on accordian!) in the saucy "Music Makes Me," and Fred does some solo tap, then sings and leads the band for the spectacular airborne finale featuring chorus girls perched on the wings of biplanes. The heart of the film is "The Carioca," a company dance extravaganza that would be imitated by "The Continental" and "The Piccolino" in later films. Here Fred and Ginger take the floor together for the first time; their eyes meet and their foreheads touch. Their dance lasts only a few minutes, but it was the highlight of the film and audiences wanted more. The most prophetic moment occurs toward the beginning of the dance, when, after watching for a while, Fred grabs Ginger and tells her, "I want to try this. Come on, Honey." She declares, "We'll show 'em a thing or three." They did indeed. It was magic, and it was only the beginning. --David Horiuchi
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