Wow i didn't catch that hinted incest aspect of Blame it on Rio i switched it off half way through but i was actually going to mention while seeing Caine in this role disturbed me the other father creeped me out way way more he was sleezier
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Its been a long time since I saw Blame it on Rio, but I do recall that the other father was played by American New York actor Joe Bologna, who made a nice contrast to Cockney Caine, but that both Bologna and his daughter(the one who successfully seduces Caine) are a more amoral pair than Caine and HIS daughter -- a young Demi Moore.
Interesting: while the other actress , Michelle Johnson, was quite willing to show off her breasts in a couple of scenes(but hardly all the time), Demi Moore, even as a "new young actress," kept her breasts covered in topless scenes via her long hair over them. Moore was staking out, perhaps, a bigger career ahead while the other gal was hired over a willingness to "show what she had."
Which brings me to a couple of points:
"Blame it on Rio" would have been pretty much banished to obscurity had it not been directed by Stanley Donen, a once-major director who co-directed Singin' in the Rain and directed the thrillers Charade and Arabesque , and the Audrey Hepburn-Albert Finney love story Two for the Road.
With DONEN at the helm of Blame it on Rio, the film's "sexual sex farce" had to be taken more seriously and it got hit even harder.
But hey: the film was an American remake of a French film, and Donen and his then-wife, the younger and very sexy Yvette Mimeux, saw that film, and as a COUPLE believed it should be remade for an American studio. In other words, this was the kind of "adult and sophisticated sex material"(they thought) that might transfer well to American audiences. It didn't.
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roger1 (4046)
19 days ago
I dunno. There was no getting around that for male audiences, the early sequences of the naked and voluptuous teenage girl(still 17 when she filmed this) seducing the middle-aged man was: a sex fantasy had by many men. Just as there have been movies about older women being seduced by very young men.
In short, I couldn't quite clutch my pearls over "Blame It on Rio" and yeah, the early stuff with Caine and Michelle Johnson was sexy. And that's it as far as that movie goes for me.I think Caine said he took the movie for the trip to Rio and the beach.
(For a French film about REAL incest with a more serious, well-reviewed cachet, there's always Murmur of the Heart -- sexy mother, innocent son.)
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Lucia2016 (646)
19 days ago
Yeah the sniper being on the train say's the London mob were preparing for potential action from the get go and your angle of doing their dirty work and culling the Northern mob makes sense.
I was on the line of were they potentially worried about Jack finding out about their potential involvement. Less likely but the fact the film starts with them watching a porn film and the tart in the mansion mentioning she knows them really well they come up all the time ect made me think they knew more than we assumed and that Jack was maybe doomed from the get go
What i love about this film though it's one of those where you know the expression show don't tell? well they don't really show you everything or tell you everything it's a lot of half conversations here and there you have to piece together to see what the timeline was and who the players were
I guess you could class this a a noir
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