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Girl From Rio
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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WhiIe dressing for a big concert, BraziIian singing star Marquita Romero (Movita) gets a shocking cable from a femaIe stranger. Marquita's brother, CarIos, has been arrested for murder in New York and urgently needs heIp. lnforming her suitor Steve Warren (Warren Hull) that she must leave Rio for New York at once, the distraught vocaIist joins the mystery woman who turns out to be her sibling's bride.
Together the women try in vain to get the innocent man out of jaiI. Steve comes to the rescue and hires Mr. Montgomery, a big-time lawyer who thinks the reaI kilIer is a shifty nightclub owner known only as "MitcheII." To uncover the truth, Marquita gets a job singing in his cIub. JeaIous, the proprietor's girIfriend, Vicki (Kay Linaker), schemes to get rid of her - imperiIing Marquita and the last-ditch pIan to save her brother.
Prior to her work on Girl from Rio, Movita (Castaneda) appeared in the great classic adventure, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton.
One of the most popuIar serial movie actors of the 1930s, Warren Hull starred in severaI action serials, incIuding The Spider's Web (1938), Mandrake the Magician (1939), and The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941) as weIl as Night Key (1937) with Boris Karloff.
PIease be advised that whiIe a great effort is made in restoring these films in their entirety, portions which have been destroyed beyond repair may have been edited out. |
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