That Man from Rio
That Man from Rio is a 1964 French-Italian international co-production adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac. It was the first film to be made by the French subsidiary of United Artists, Les Productions Artistes Associés. The film was a huge success with a total of 4,800,626 admissions in France, becoming the 5th highest earning film of the year.
Plot
As airman Adrien Dufourquet embarks on an 8-day leave in Paris to see his fiancée Agnès, two South American Indians steal an Amazonian statuette from the Musée de l'Homme and force Professor Catalan, the curator, into their car. Catalan was the companion of Agnès' father on an expedition into the Amazonian rainforest during which her father died. Catalan believes that the statuette is one of three which hold the secret to an Amazonian treasure. Adrien arrives in time to see the Indians abducting Agnès, the only one who knows the location of her father's statuette, and he pursues them to the airport where he steals a ticket and boards the same plane.
More details
| author | Ariane Mnouchkine Daniel Boulanger Jean-Paul Rappeneau Philippe de Broca |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Brazil Paris Rio de Janeiro |
| director | Philippe de Broca |
| genre | adventure comedy |
| keywords | abduct amazonian rainforest american indian arrest bootblack brasília bury drug float murder musée de l'homme rush south american stolen car trans-amazonian highway |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| producer | Alexandre Mnouchkine Georges Dancigers |
| productionCompany | Les Films Ariane |
| publisher | Les Productions Artistes Associés |
| recordedAt | Brasília Paris Rio de Janeiro |
| theme | chase parody |