Editing Road to Rio (section)

==Plot==
Musicians Scat Sweeney (Crosby) and Hot Lips Barton (Hope) are refugees from a swing quintet that has disbanded. Meanwhile Lucia is a glamorous nightclub singer. Scat and Hot Lips join her as backing musicians on clarinet and trumpet.

They travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from girls. After running from state to state, each time retreating because of a girl, they stow away aboard a [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio]]-bound ship. They then get mixed up with the distraught Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. Unbeknownst to both of them, Lucia is being hypnotized by her crooked guardian, Catherine Vail. Vail plans to marry Lucia to her brother so she can control both her and a set of important "papers".

A nightclub owner has hired Scat and Hot Lips but he expects the full swing quintet. Scat and Hot Lips recruit three local musicians (the [[Wiere Brothers]], who in the film cannot speak English) and coach them with a few phrases in jive talk, hoping to fool the nightclub owner.

Villainess Vail decides to do away with the boys permanently. She hypnotizes both of them and tries to get them to kill each other in a [[duel]], but it fails. Scat and Hot Lips, finally figuring things out, rush to stop the wedding and catch the crooks. Scat seizes "the papers" and reads them. When Hot Lips asks what they are about, Scat tears them up and looks into the camera, saying, "The world must ''never'' know."

Later on, Scat is dismayed to see that Lucia loves Hot Lips and not him, but upon peeking through a keyhole, he sees Hot Lips hypnotizing her.

Hope's frequent sidekick [[Jerry Colonna (entertainer)|Jerry Colonna]] has a cameo, leading a cavalry charge to rescue Bing and Bob, as the film cuts away to the galloping horses periodically. All is resolved before he can arrive, leading Colonna to point out: "Whaddaya know? We never quite made it. Exciting, though, wasn't it?"