The Girl from Rio (1969)

★ 4.7 1h 34m IMDb

Action Sci-Fi Adventure

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.

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Shirley Eaton as Sumuru Age 89 · Edgeware, Middlesex, England, UK Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Mas...

Richard Wyler as Jeff Sutton Died 2010 · Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK Richard Stapley, also known (beginning from 1959) by the stage name Richard Wyler, was a British actor and writer..

George Sanders as Sir Masius Died 1972 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy up...

Maria Rohm as Leslye Died 2018 · Vienna, Austria Maria Rohm (born Helga Grohmann; 13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018) was an Austrian actress. She is famous for appearing in many exploitation films directed by Jesús Franco in the late 60s. She has been m...

Elisa Montés as Irene Died 2024 · Granada, Andalucía, Spain

Director Jesús Franco

Cast Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders, Maria Rohm, Marta Reves, Elisa Montés, Beni Cardoso, Herbert Fleischmann, Walter Rilla, Jesús Franco

Wuchak 5/10 Feb 25, 2018

**_Kitschy, groovy late 60s spy-adventure with Richard Wyler and an army of hot feminazis_**

A handsome man on a mission in Rio (Richard Wyler) is caught between a mobster (George Sanders) & his heavies (Herbert Fleischmann) and a femme fatale (Shirley Eaton) who wants to rule the world with her army of machine gun-fortified feminazis.

Released in 1969, "The Girl from Rio" (aka "Rio 70") is the second part of a duology after "The Million Eyes of Sumuru" (1967), which I've never seen and you don't need to view in order to appreciate (or withstand) this one. "The Girl from Rio" is a tacky late 60's spy-adventure that combines elements of "That Man from Rio" (1964), Franco's "Kiss Me, Monster" (1969), "Invasion of the Bee Girls" (1973) and Bond flicks of the same period, albeit without the budget and compelling script.

If you have a taste for those types of movies you'll probably enjoy "Rio." Like "Kiss Me" and "Invasion" there's a lot of filler and the corresponding tedious sequences. A full 35 minutes of the runtime could've (and should've) been cut to make the movie more enthralling, but then it wouldn't be "feature length," which is why filmmakers add dull filler material.

What makes a movie like this worthwhile is the late 60's chic, the outlandish spy rudiments and the females. Eaton, the gold-painted girl from "Goldfinger" (1965) leads the way on the latter front with capable assist from Marta Reves (Ulla), Beni Cardoso (Yana), Elisa Montés (Irene) and Maria Rohm (Lesley). In an interview Eaton said she wept on the plane home from Rio because filmmaking was so exhausting and she desperately wanted to be with her husband & children. It was understandably her last film.

It runs 1 hour, 34 minutes, and was shot in (aduh) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with studio work done in Spain.

GRADE: C

stackkorora 2/10 Apr 11, 2019

This movie was more softcore porn than an actual movie and it was more long pointless camera shots than it was anything else. The characters are near pointless, the acting terrible, the story confusing - I really think this was just to show women in skimpy costumes. I barely got through it with the Rifftrax commentary which at least provided something entertaining in this weird film.

Tourma Jun 12, 2024

The sideboob and latex henchwoman outfits are like, 80% of the reason to watch this movie.

...We should bring silk capes back.