Rio Rita

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Rio Rita ★★½ 1942

Abbott & Costello are working on a ranch and somehow become involved with Nazi spies. Provides a few original comic bits for the duo but is otherwise mediocre. An updated remake of the 1929 Wheeler & Woolsey comedy. 91m/B VHS . Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Patricia Dane, Tom Conway, Peter Whitney; D: S. Sylvan Simon; C: George J. Folsey.

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