Rio Rita

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Rio Rita, 1942.

Robert Osborne introduces Rio Rita, 1942, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello), stuck in Texas, stowed away in the trunk of a car with New York plates, it didn't work out and, still in Texas, the car is dropped off for service, early in MGM's Rio Rita, 1942.

Devoted fan "Rita" (Kathryn Grayson) is singing along with her portable on the prairie when the artist himself "Ricardo Montera" (John Carroll), local boy made good, happens along, song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, in MGM's Abbott & Costello re-boot of Rio Rita, 1942.

One of their best opening routines in their first adventure away from Universal, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello at work in a pet store, in MGM's 1942 re-vamp of Rio Rita, also starring Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll.

A pair of nitwits try to stop Nazis from infiltrating a Western ranch in Rio Rita (1942), starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello.