Rio Rita

Rio Rita (1929)

Ziegfeld's fabulous all-talking, all-singing super screen spectacle

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.

Date of release
1929-09-15
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
2h 20m
Genres
Romance, Western, Music
Director
Luther Reed

Casting

Interesting facts

Rio Rita is a 1929 American pre-Code RKO musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous. The film was the biggest and most expensive RKO production of 1929 as well as the studio's biggest box office hit until King Kong (1933). Its finale was photographed in two-color Technicolor. Rio Rita was chosen as one of the 10 best films of 1929 by Film Daily.

Production notes

The choreography for the grand finale on the barge was created by Pearl Eaton.

The 1942 Abbott and Costello "remake" has little in common with this version. Two songs, "Rio Rita" and "The Ranger's Song", are presented again, but the MGM film's storyline is so different that the screenplay is credited as an original work.

A version for television was produced by NBC in 1950.

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