Willard Mack's melodramatic play from 1925, +The Dove, has not stood the test of time and was probably old hat already in 1932, when RKO made this, the first of two remakes. But despite the slow-moving plot and ham-fisted direction from the veteran Herbert Brenon, Girl of the Rio remains worth watching for the luminous beauty of Dolores Del Rio and Leo Carrillo's mustache-twirling villain. RKO maintained that the drama was filmed on-location "down Mexico way" but the vistas look a lot more like the studio's ranch at the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Girl of the Rio (1932)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
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