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From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Name That Movie!
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 15:47:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 15:47:01 1984
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> From: wendt@arizona.UUCP (Alan Wendt)
> 
> I remember (vaguely) a movie that must have come out around 1960,
> as I saw when I was 6 or 7.
> It was an adventure based in South America, scenery very remeniscent
> of, say, Romancing the Stone.  The hero was in the Navy and not only
> had to save the world but he had to catch the train to get back to
> base when his weekend furlough was over.  Saving the world in this
> case involved not letting the bad guys get all four little Incan
> statuettes.  Can anyone name that movie?

    This has to have been That Man From Rio. French-made with Jean-Paul
Belmondo in the title role. As I remember saving the world was incidental to
recovering Belmondo's girlfriend Agnes, who had been kidnapped by the
baddies along with the indian statuettes.

    Twas a real fun adventure flick, with most of the strengths of IJ#2
and fewer of the flaws. (eg I only had to suspend disbelief, not draw and
quarter it!). If you see it dubbed rather than subtitled, Belmondo sounds a
little dumb whenever he screams his girlfriend's name. ("Agnes" is pronounced
nicer in French than in English. Bad luck.)


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