The upside to making a stain on the conscience of the entire film industry like Blame It on Rio, where you’re forced to vomit forth dialogue about how horny you must have felt as a baby when your current erotic fixation Michael Caine spanked you on your bottom during your christening is that it leaves ample room for improvement.
Blame It on Rio, Donen’s final film, disgraced that name but poor Johnson, a seventeen year old cast in the impossible role of a nubile teen nymphet who aggressively pursues a sexual relationship with family friend and old-ass man Michael Caine bore the worst of it.
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Stanley Donen’s first movie as a director or co-director, On the Town, made his name as a filmmaker of distinction. Hell, I’m feeling dirty just remembering that god-forsaken abomination. I felt very dirty after watching the movie for my First and Last column for TCM Backlot. The notorious remake of a French (of course) farce was less filmmaking than low-level sex trafficking. Michelle Johnson had the terrible personal and professional misfortune to make her oft-naked debut in 1984’s Blame It on Rio, which was less a movie than a low-level criminal enterprise rooted in the sexual exploitation of an underaged girl.