Cantinflas

Cantinflas

Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Actor), 5 (Writer)

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    Around the World in 80 Days
    Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says. (imdb)
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    The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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    El padrecito
    When an unconventional priest assumes his new post in a conservative small town, the skeptical citizens find that adjusting to the oddball clergyman's strange little quirks may take a little more getting used to than they first expected. (allmovie.com)
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    The Professor
    Cantinflas plays a small village's school teacher and has to deal with corrupt folks who want to kick him out of town. (imdb)
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    El Analfabeto
    Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter about a dead relative who left him a fortune. Since he's an illiterate, he decides to go to school, refusing to open the letter and collect the money before he learns how to read.
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    The Extra
    While working on a movie set as an extra, Cantinflas bothers the directors and meets an orphan aspiring actress to whom he tries at all costs to get a breakthough part.
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    Ups and Downs
    Cantinflas is an employee at a big sports store and spreads chaos and confusion every time, no matter which department he's working in.
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    Pepe
    The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time (imdb)
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    El Barrendero
    A young man never ceases to find trouble--or senoritas. (allrovi.com)
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    Caballero a la medida
    Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos for a prestigious store. During his free time, Cantinflas is the manager of an amateur boxer, assists an attractive nurser and occasionally helps a priest in the church and running a poor orphanage. However, one day Cantinflas, wearing the tuxedo, meets a rich man, whom falsely believes that our friend is also a millionaire. (imdb)
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    El Portero
    Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. (imdb)
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    One Day with the Devil
    A newspaper boy mistakenly goes to the army; after dying during a mission, he goes to visit the afterlife. (imdb)
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    Su excelencia
    Lopez, treated derisively by all as Lopitos, is a humble but loyal citizen of Los Cocos Republic, working as an assistant at the chancellery, helping to process visas. Through a sudden series of events, namely the fear of the number 13 by the Los Cocos Ambassador, a strict protocol, three military coups and a revolution, all successful in the same day, with as much changes in governments, and ambassadors, Lopitos becomes the ambassador (imdb)
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    El bombero atómico
    Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance. (imdb (Alejandro Frias))
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    El bolero de Raquel
    The beloved Mexican funnyman Cantinflas stars in this comedy as a shoeshine man who, after the death of his best friend and fellow bootblack, is put in charge of arranging the man's funeral and caring for his young son. Needing to raise some money, the shoeshine man tries to get work at a night club, but his eccentric dance act soon raises the ire of Raquel, the club's star dancer, and Cantinflas is sent packing [...] ~ Mark Deming, Rovi (Mark Deming, Rovi)
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    Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
    Cantinflas adds his own unique brand of comedy as Sancho Panza in a very loose adaptation of Cervantes' novel.
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    ¡Así es mi tierra!
    With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life. Written by Don Lahey (imdb)
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    Soy un prófugo
    A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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    Romeo y Julieta
    There have been many versions of Shakespeare's masterpiece, but none like the one starring Cantinflas. This delightful and humorous version also carries a powerful message to today's parents, showing them how to approach the problems of their children with understanding, firmness, and tolerance. (imdb)
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    Los tres mosqueteros
    This is a parody of Alexander's Dumas "The Three Musketeers". Cantinflas is Dartagnan, the skillful leader of the musketeers, and will fight with the evil Cardinal Richelieu, who wants to take the power of France in the XVII Century. But Dartagnan and his fellows will stop him, using his sword and his funny speech pattern.
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    Si yo fuera diputado
    Tired of the same politicians, who never do anything to improve their welfare, people from a poor neighborhood decide to support the local shoeshine boy (Cantinflas) for public office. (imdb)
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    El mago
    A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas. (imdb)
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