L'Homme de Rio
1964 Adventure / Comedy
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Summary
French airforce pilot Adrien Dufourquet returns to Paris for a week’s leave just before
his girlfriend, Agnès, is kidnapped. Adrien discovers that Agnès has been
taken to South America to help locate a lost treasure in the Amazon. Without a second
to lose, he sets out to rescue her...
Review
This energetic adventure farce owes as much to the Tintin stories of Hergé
as to the James Bond films. Filmed almost entirely on location in Brasil, but with
a fraction of the budget of a Hollywood film with the same ambitions, this has the feel
of lavish spy thriller, but made hilariously funny by some unexpected twists and turns.
The film’s star, Jean-Paul Belmondo, is at the height of his powers, and he throws himself into some of the most incredible stunts with an apparent fool-hardy relish. His co-star is the captivating Françoise Dorléac (the sister of Catherine Deneuve). The film was instantly sucessful in France, attracting nearly five million spectators. It enjoyed similiar success in the United States and Italy, making it one of the most popular French films of all time. © James Travers 2002
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