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Miguel M. Delgado
Miguel Melitón Delgado Pardavé (17 May 1905 – 2 January 1994) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter best known for directing thirty-three of Cantinflas' films, under contract of Posa Films. He directed 139 films between 1941 and 1990. His film ''The Three Musketeers'' was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''The Unknown Policeman'' (1941) * ''The Three Musketeers'' (1942) * '' Doña Bárbara'' (1943) * ''El secreto de la solterona'' (1944) * '' Gran Hotel'' (1944) * ''Michael Strogoff'' (1944) * ''A Day with the Devil'' (1945) * ''I Am a Fugitive'' (1946) * ''Fly Away, Young Man!'' (1947) * '' The Genius'' (1948) * '' The Magician'' (1949) * ''The Atomic Fireman'' (1952) * ''The Photographer'' (1953) * ''Your Memory and Me'' (1953) * ''The Sixth Race'' (1953) * ''A Tailored Gentleman'' (1954) * ''Drop the Curtain'' (1955) * ''Las Viudas del Cha Cha Cha'' (1955) * ''El bolero de Raquel'' (1957) * '' Sube y baja'' (1959) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Photographer (1953 Film)
''The Photographer'' or ''Mr. Photographer'' (Spanish: ''El señor fotógrafo'') is a 1953 Mexican comedy thriller film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Rosita Arenas and Ángel Garasa.Dennison & Shaw, p. 120. The film's art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ... was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot An apprentice of photography (Cantinflas) is accidentally involved in an international complot when he ends up being left in charge of a chemical engineer (Ángel Garasa) who went insane after he invents a bomb and an attempt is made against his life. Cast Reception The film set an opening day record in Mexico grossing $5,810 at the Cine Roble. References Bibliography * Shaw, Lisa & Dennison, Stephanie. ''Popular Cinema in Brazil''. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su Excelencia
''Su Excelencia'' (aka ''Your Excellency'') is a 1967 Mexican political satire film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas and Sonia Infante. The film is set in a parody universe where "Red" and "Green" countries are the political equivalents of the socialist and capitalist countries of the Cold War, which the film satirizes. Cantinflas portrays Lupitos, a chancellor stationed in his country's (Republica de Los Cocos) embassy in the communist country of Pepeslavia who later ascends to the role of ambassador and has to decide the pivotal vote of joining the "Reds" or the "Greens", therefore deciding the fate of the entire world. ''Su Excelencia'', the fourth Cantinflas film distributed by Columbia Pictures, boasted box-office success and is among Cantinflas' most successful films. with its New York premiere scoring a box office victory over Charlie Chaplin's last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', which opened the same week. Plot In a world where countries are divid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Señor Doctor
''El señor doctor'' (aka ''Mr. Doctor'') is a 1965 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas,León Frías, p. 726 alongside Marta Romero and Miguel Ángel Álvarez. This film is notorious due to its dramatic overtones, in contrast to the more picquaresque tint of Cantinflas' previous films. Plot Salvador Medina (Cantinflas) is a country doctor who, finding many different technological advances in the medical field, and the need to adapt to said new technologies, moves to Mexico City to become an intern in the Medical Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). Salvador immediately clashes with his superior and Head of Training at IMSS, Dr. Miguel Villanueva (Miguel Ángel Álvarez), while growing closer to Nurse Laura (Marta Romero) who, unbeknownst to him at first, is Dr. Villanueva's sister. In his medical activity at the hospital, Salvador serves various patients by raising their self-esteem and he is jokingly preferred to Dr. Kildar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Padrecito
''El padrecito'' ( "The Little Priest") is a 1964 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas, Ángel Garasa and Rosa María Vázquez. Plot When an elderly priest, Father Damián receives word that he will be replaced by a younger priest, he states his dread at leaving the parish refuses to accept his arrival, though he relents. Coming to replace him is the young priest Father Sebastián (played by Cantinflas) who is assigned to the parish in San Jerónimo el Alto, where the town is indifferent to his arrival. Everyone around him gives him the cold shoulder, including Father Damián (played by Ángel Garasa), and particularly Damián's sister, Sara. The only resident to instantly warm up to him is Sara's daughter Susana. Added to the woes are the forthcoming enmity from the town's ''cacique'' Don Silvestre and his son Marcos. Father Sebastián is at first struggling to adapt to the environment, but eventually his unconventional counsels begin to win o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immediate Delivery
''Immediate Delivery'' (Spanish: ''Entrega inmediata''), originally known as ''Agente XU 777'' (English: ''Agent XU 777'') is a 1963 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Gina Romand, Claudio Brook and Fanny Cano. In the film, Cantinflas plays a simple mailman forced to become an international spy.Pilcher, p. 191 It was the last black and white film made by Cantinflas, although he had already made six color films at the time. Plot Feliciano (Cantinflas) is a mailman who is recruited by a secret counterintelligence service (which codenames him Agent XU-777), and must discover an international conspiracy. He manages to find out that enemy agents, led by Carlota (Gina Romand) and Alex (Claudio Brook), will smuggle a teacher to decipher keys through a coffin. Feliciano is put in charge of the funeral home, but he ends up delivering the coffin to a wrong person, distracting the loyal agents and allowing the enemy to achieve their goal. However, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Extra (1962 Film)
''The Extra'' (Spanish: ''El extra'') is a 1962 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas and Alma Delia Fuentes. In the film, Cantinflas plays a man who works as an Extra (acting), extra through several films. This was the last Cantinflas film whose art direction was made by long-time set designer Gunther Gerzso. Plot Rogaciano (Cantinflas) is the modest worker of a Mexican film studio, who performs several roles as an Extra (acting), extra in the films shot there. His excessive zeal at work causes the antipathy of successive directors who do not support his forays into their films. After his run-ins into film sets, he dreams that he is the protagonist of each of the productions of which he has participated, such as him playing a ''Sans-culottes, sans-culotte'' and saving Marie Antoinette in a film about the French Revolution, being the lover of Marguerite Gautier in a retelling of ''La Dame aux Camélias'' in which she survives, and saving a maiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Illiterate One
''The Illiterate One'' (Spanish: ''El analfabeto'') is a 1961 Mexican comedy film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas, Lilia Prado, and Sara García. It is the second Cantinflas film presented by Columbia Pictures. Plot An inheritance attorney sends a letter to Inocencio Prieto y Calvo telling him that he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos, which he has only to claim by producing his baptismal certificate as proof of identity. However, as an illiterate, Inocencio has no idea of the contents of the letter, even telling his godmother, whom he lives with that it's perhaps someone who wants to borrow money. While waiting for the local druggist to wait on him so he can have the letter read to him, Inocencio is embarrassed to see that a customer's young daughter is able to read while he, a grown man, cannot. He leaves without telling the druggist his problem, resolved to go to school and to wait to learn the letter's contents until he can read the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sube Y Baja
''Sube y baja'' (aka ''Up and Down'') is a 1959 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Teresa Velázquez, Domingo Soler, Carlos Agostí and Alejandro Ciangherotti.Lozoya & Agrasánchez, p. 36 The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot Don Gaspar (Domingo Soler), the owner of a prestigious sporting goods store, decides to hire a man (Cantinflas) as a salesman in his store, after seeing him play an American football game. When the man starts working in the store, he fails in many positions he is given, but Don Gaspar does not fire him despite the constant accusations of an employee of his who sees all the disasters he causes, and trusting that he is good for something. In the end, he degrades him to operator of the elevator, and later decides to send him to Acapulco to try to convince Jorge Maciel (Carlos Agostí), a famous professional athlete who will spend his vacation there, to sign an advertising contract that will give more pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Bolero De Raquel
''El bolero de Raquel'' (aka ''Raquel's Shoeshiner'') is a 1957 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Manola Saavedra, Flor Silvestre, and child actor Paquito Fernández. The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. This is Cantinflas' first Mexican color film (it was filmed in Eastmancolor, also considered as Mexico's Technicolor). Plot Cantinflas is a down on his luck but affable and witty shoeshiner that learns that his ''compadre'' has died in an accident. His friend's widow, Leonor (Flor Silvestre) is unable to support her child, Chavita, so she leaves the kid with Cantinflas so she can go to Guadalajara, Jalisco in order to seek help from her parents. In the first days, Cantinflas goes to work in Chapultepec and Chavita catches a ball that some other children are playing with, with Cantinflas arguing with the child owner's nanny over the ball. Cantinflas calms down Chavita by promising he will bring him a new ball. In order to f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Viudas Del Cha Cha Cha
''Las viudas del cha-cha-cha'' ( en, The Cha Cha Cha Widows) is a 1955 Mexican Musical Comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado. Cast * Amalia Aguilar Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera (3 July 1924 – 8 November 2021), known professionally as Amalia Aguilar, was a Cuban-Mexican dancer, actress and comedian. Early life Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera was born in Matanzas, Cuba. She and her ... * Raúl Martínez * Chula Prieto * Andrés Soler * Eduardo Alcaraz * León Barroso * María Herrero * Otilia Larrañaga External links * 1955 films Films directed by Miguel M. Delgado Mexican black-and-white films Rumberas films 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican musical comedy films 1955 musical comedy films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drop The Curtain
''Drop the Curtain'' (Spanish: ''Abajo el telón'') is a 1955 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Christiane Martel and Beatriz Saavedra.Lezcano, p. 98. The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot A man (Cantinflas) who works as a window cleaner in the city is eventually presented with the opportunity to clean the windows of a famous French actress, Lulu Duval (Christiane Martel), who is starring in a musical revue in an important theater. The actress's agent Julián ( Alejandro Ciangherotti) steals her most precious jewel, a very valuable necklace, and the window cleaner is unjustly accused because he was cleaning the windows at the time, though the assistant and confidant of the famous actress, Anita (Beatriz Saavedra) believes in his innocence. The thief negotiates the necklace with the head of a criminal band that strikes the city (Rafael Alcayde). The Police Commissioner (Víctor Alcocer) convinces the window cleaner to serve as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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