That Man from Rio(1964)
Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Movie: That Man from Rio
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Adrien Dufourquet
Agnès Villermosa
Prof. Norbert Catalan
Lola
Señor Mario De Castro
Lebel
Commissaire
Tupac
General in wheelchair
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