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Rio Rita (Warner Archive)
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Rio Rita (Warner Archive) (1929)
Starring:  Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado, Georges Renavent, Helen Kaiser, Richard Alexander, Hank Bell, Sammy Blum
Director:  Luther Reed
Genre:  Comedy, Westerns, Musicals, Romance, Romantic Musical, Musical Comedy, Musical Western, Western Comedy
Year:  1929
Studio:  Warner Home Video
Length:  102 minutes
Released:   December 1, 2009
Rating:  NR
Format:  DVD
Misc:  Color, NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White
Language:  English(Original Language)
SYNOPSIS:
Ziegfeld made ’em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman’s grandeur with a musical that adhered to the source and earned kudos as “one of the best of the [Talkie Era’s] Broadway adaptations” (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical).

Bebe Daniels (often a Harold Lloyd co-star) plays Rita, wooed by a singing Texas Ranger (John Boles) who suspects her brother may be a notorious bandito. Meanwhile, a lawyer tries to arrange a divorce for a client who has (oops) two wives.

Put the storylines together (somehow), add the wow of two-strip Technicolor for the lengthy finale aboard a pirate river barge, include lavish sets and the guffaws provided by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey (reprising their stage roles) and Rio Rita was ready to – and did – pack audiences in!

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