Flying down to Rio
By: Radio Pictures ; directed by Thorton Freeland ; screenplay by Cyril Hume, H.W. Hanemann and Erwin Gelsey ; from a play by Anne Caldwell
Contributors: Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946; Astaire, Fred, 1899-1987; Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995; Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983; Raymond, Gene; Roulien, Raul, 1905-; Turner Entertainment Co; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Edition: Standard version.
Series: Astaire and Rogers the complete film collection
Publisher: Turner Entertainment Co; Warner Home Video
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burbank CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Entertainers; Drama; Artistas; Teatro
Description: This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.

Based on an original story by Lou Brock.

Special features: Vintage comedy short: Beer and pretzels with Ted Healy and his Stooges; Classic cartoon: I like mountain music; Theatrical trailer.

Producers, Merian C. Cooper, Lou Brock ; music, Vincent Youmans ; lyrics, Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn.

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien.

Not rated.

DVD; Dolby Digital mono.; dual-layer format.

Closed-captioned. In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.