Rio Rita

IMDb link: 0035259
IMDb rating: 6.1 (1,343 votes)
Genres: Comedy, War, Music, Romance, Musical
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and others

Release date: 1 Apr 1942
Release year: 1942
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: slapstick comedy, female sexual predator, romantic rivalry, damsel in distress, desperation, burlesque routine, deception, based on broadway musical, based on stage musical, farce comedy

Plot:

After being fired from their jobs as clerks in a pet store, Doc and Wishey, a couple of bumpkins, hide in the trunk of a car that they think will take them to New York. Somehow, however, they end up in Texas where they help to facilitate the romance of a popular Latin singer and the owner of a resort hotel while exposing a gang of Fifth Columnists.

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