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When a marriage-shy girl falls in love with her psychoanalyst, the result is one of the wittiest, most enjoyable of all the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics! Add great dance numbers, Rogers' deft comic timing, and a score by the legendary Irving Berlin, and you have a true film treasure. The story revolves around the fickle .. Read more

Starring Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Director Thornton Freeland
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Music/Musical

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Flying down to Rio

When a marriage-shy girl falls in love with her psychoanalyst, the result is one of the wittiest, most enjoyable of all the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics! Add great dance numbers, Rogers' deft comic timing, and a score by the legendary Irving Berlin, and you have a true film treasure. The story revolves around the fickle Amanda Cooper (Rogers) who has postponed her wedding so often that her fianci (Ralph Bellamy) sends her best friend Tony Flagg (Astaire), a psychoanalyst, to treat her. In spite of hypnosis and assorted other wacky attempts at remedies, Amanda falls in love with Tony, and the rest is musical-comedy history.

Starring Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Director Thornton Freeland
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Certificate DVD Certificate TBC.gif
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Music/Musical
Released DVD: 15 Jan 2007
Production year: 1933
Format DVD
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  • 2 stars out of 4

    A thin musical electrified by the finale in which girls dance on the wings of moving airplanes, and by the teaming of Astaire and Rogers for the first time. Now an irresistible period piece.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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    Rated - 4 stars

    Fred and Ginger fly through their first film together

    Flying down to Rio was Astaire and Rogers' first film together, and the only one where Ginger was billed above Fred. But don't start watching Flying down to Rio expecting them to be centre stage, because they play supporting characters who end up stealing the show with their dance sequences. Ginger's sharp humour is a delight, whilst Fred's exasperated accordion player dances around after his band leader friend.

    The plot revolves around the rakish bandleader Roger Bond (Gene Raymond) and his love affair with the already engaged Belinha (Dolores del Rio) and the attempts of her fiancé to secure his wife by opening hotel with Bond's band the star attraction at the opening night . The Romance doesn't dominate, instead its the set pieces which steal the show - the production number with girls dancing on aeroplane wings has to be seen to be believed.

    However be warned that this print of the film is not great, and people who have seen the beautifully remastered releases of Shall We Dance, Top Hat, Carefree and Follow the Fleet may be disapointed that a similar amount of work hasn't been put in on this historic film.

      • A customer from Preston, England
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    • Flying down to Rio
      When a marriage-shy girl falls in love with her psychoanalyst, the result is one of the wittiest, most enjoyable of all the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics! Add great dance numbers, Rogers' deft comic timing, and a score by the legendary Irving Berlin, and you have a true film treasure. The ...