That Man from Rio

Adrien Dufourquet, a French soldier on a short leave, arrives in Paris to see his fiancée Agnès and instead witnesses her kidnapping, along with that of Professor Catalan, the curator of a museum from which a priceless Amazonian statuette has also been taken. With little money and no plan, Adrien follows the trail to Rio de Janeiro, where he becomes caught between the Brazilian police and a gang of killers while trying to find Agnès and work out what makes the stolen object so valuable.

Philippe de Broca directed and co-wrote the film with Daniel Boulanger and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. It was his third feature as director, following The Seven Deadly Sins and Cartouche, and it belongs to the cycle of adventure comedies he made during the 1960s. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Adrien, with Françoise Dorléac as Agnès, Jean Servais as Professor Catalan, Simone Renant, Adolfo Celi and Roger Dumas in supporting roles. Produced by Alexandre Mnouchkine and Georges Dancigers, the film runs 117 minutes and was made as a co-production between France, Italy and Brazil, released in February 1964.

The film has a rating of 7.3 out of 10 on TMDB from 359 votes, while its critics' rating stands at 7.7 out of 10 from 14 reviews, so critics rate it somewhat higher than the audience does.