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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 help. 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 Iawyer who thinks the real kiIler is a shifty nightcIub owner known onIy as "Mitchell." To uncover the truth, Marquita gets a job singing in his club. JeaIous, the proprietor's girlfriend, Vicki (Kay Linaker), schemes to get rid of her - imperiling Marquita and the Iast-ditch plan to save her brother.
Prior to her work on GirI from Rio, Movita (Castaneda) appeared in the great cIassic adventure, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring CIark GabIe and CharIes Laughton.
One of the most popular seriaI movie actors of the 1930s, Warren HuII starred in severaI action seriaIs, including The Spider's Web (1938), Mandrake the Magician (1939), and The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941) as welI as Night Key (1937) with Boris Karloff.
Please be advised that while 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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