Who Done It? (1942 film)
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Rio Rita Released Mar 11, 1942 1h 31m Musical Comedy List Reviews 42% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Two ranch hands (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) and a radio singer foil Nazi spies in a Texas...
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- S. Sylvan Simon
- Musical, Comedy
- Bud Abbott
Reviews 40% Audience Score 50+ Ratings In a small border town, Texas Ranger Jim Stewart (John Boles) aims to catch the notorious local bandit known as "Kinkajou" by disguising himself as a...
- Musical, Comedy
- Bebe Daniels
- Luther Reed
Rio Rita (1942) - Rio Rita (1942) - User Reviews - IMDb. User Reviews. Review this title. 18 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 5/10. Bud and Lou's MGM debut. bkoganbing 7 September 2005.
24 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: Bebe Daniels in Her Talkie Debut. drednm 14 January 2007. Lovely old musical based on a smash 1927 Broadway show produced by Flo Ziegfeld. Stale plot but it doesn't matter what with great leads by John Boles and Bebe Daniels. Nonsense about a bunch of vigilantes seeking the notorious "Kinkajou."
The early talkie Rio Rita (1929) has often been sited as historically important for a number of reasons--1) This filming of the popular Flo Ziegfeld stage production was a forerunner of numerous stage-to-screen musicals--2) The last half hour of the film displayed an early use of two-strip Technicolor--and 3) The movie was the first to team ...
Grade: 55/100. Director: Luther Reed. Stars: John Boles, Bebe Daniels, Bert Wheeler. What it's about. Based on a Florenz Ziegfeld Broadway musical. Bebe Daniels is a well-to-do young Mexican woman. Her brother, Don Alvardo, is suspected by everyone to be The Kinkajoo, a notorious bank robber.
Review by ProfDorkmen ★★★½. Along with Deana Durbin musicals and Universal Horror Films, Abbott and Costello's films kept Universal from bankruptcy. In 1941 & 1942, the Boys were the highest-paid movie act in Hollywood churning out 8 pictures. These were churned out faster than they could be filmed.
