Road to Rio

Road to Rio is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. Road to Rio was the fifth of the "Road to …" series.

Plot
Lucia is hypnotized by her guardian, Catherine Vail, who want's to marry Lucia to her brother. when Lucia tries to escape with Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, Catherine hypnotize her a second time. Sweeney and Barton are then hypnotized by Catherine who tries to make them kill one another in a pistol duel. At the end of the film Sweeney learns that Barton and Lucia are in love with each other but upon spying on them, he find that Barton is hypnotizing Lucia with Catherine's pendant.