Rio Rita (1942 film)

Rio Rita is a 1942 American film about two men who run into Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
 * Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. Written by Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman, and John Grant.

Lookout Army, watch out Navy, America's No. 1 comics have deserted...Now they're Rummios! (taglines)

'Wishy'

 * You ever hear of Bulldog Drummond? I'm his cousin, Cocker Spaniel.


 * "I don't believe in divorce. I believe in a fight to the finish!"

Dialogue

 * 'Doc': Did you ever go to school, stupid?
 * 'Wishy': Yeah and I came out the same way.


 * 'Wishy': If I'm the one that gets killed, get twenty-five beautiful girls to walk around me.
 * 'Doc': Why?
 * 'Wishy': If I don't get up, then you know I'm dead.


 * Ricardo Montera: [Referring to Rita] Who is she?
 * Golfer: You got me, brother!
 * Ricardo Montera: I don't want you, brother!


 * Ricardo Montera: It's a code.
 * 'Wishy': I don't think so. It's pretty hot in here.


 * 'Wishy': Answer the phone.
 * 'Doc': It's not ringing.
 * 'Wishy': Why wait to the last minute?


 * ''Wishy': I want to be like the Rangers when I die. I want to die with my boots on.
 * 'Doc': Why?
 * 'Wishy': I got holes in my socks.


 * Rita: What can you do?
 * 'Wishy': Nuthin'. And we don't do THAT well, either.

Taglines

 * THERE'S Monkey Business GOING ON!
 * Lookout Army, watch out Navy, America's No. 1 comics have deserted...Now they're Rummios!
 * "SENORITA...I'M CRAZY with LOVE FOR YOU"—BUD "HE'S CRAZY ALRIGHT...BUT I'm your DAISY"—LOU
 * Songs: "RIO RITA" "LONG BEFORE YOU EVER CAME ALONG" "UNUSUAL WEATHER" "The SHADOW SONG"
 * LOU'S in LOVE! AND BUD PONDERS WHO'S the SIMP

Cast

 * Bud Abbott — 'Doc'
 * Lou Costello — 'Wishy'
 * Kathryn Grayson — Rita Winslow
 * John Carroll — Ricardo Montera
 * Patricia Dane — Lucette Brunswick
 * Tom Conway — Maurice Craindall
 * Peter Whitney — Jake
 * Barry Nelson — Harry Gantley
 * Arthur Space — Trask
 * Dick Rich — Gus
 * Eva Puig — Marianna
 * Joan Valerie — Dotty
 * Mitchell Lewis — Julio
 * Eros Volusia — Herself
 * Norman Abbott — Hotel Laundry Boy
 * King Baggot — Hotel Guest