That Man from Rio | Ciné-Salon | Feb 4

L'Homme de Rio (That Man from Rio)

Directed by Philippe de Broca • 1964 • France, Italy
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac
 
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.