''Golden Legs'' (Spanish:''Piernas de oro'') is a 1958 Mexican

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

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directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring

Antonio Espino José Antonio Hipólito Espino Mora (13 August 1910 – 24 November 1993), better known as ''Clavillazo'' (Great Little Nail) was a Mexican comedic actor who was mostly popular during the 1940s to the 1960s. History His catchphrases were "''"¡P ...

Tere Velázquez María de los Ángeles Teresa de Jesús Villar Dondé, better known as Tere Velázquez (; 8 March 1942 – 7 January 1998) was a Mexican actress. She appeared in 86 films and television shows between 1957 and 1996. She starred in the film ...

and Marco de Carlo.Hershfield & Maciel p.183 It is set in the world of competitive

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Cast

as Clavillazo Tachuela, piernas de oro *

as Teresita * Marco de Carlo as Esteban *

Óscar Pulido Óscar Pulido (1906–1974) was a Mexican actor who acted in over 100 Mexican films. Selected filmography *''The Unknown Policeman'' (1941) * ''A Day with the Devil'' (1945) * ''Rough But Respectable'' (1949) * '' Autumn and Spring'' (1949) * ' ...

as Domingo Murrieta, presidente municipal *

Luis Aragón Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

as Don Melchor * Fidel Ángel Espino as Entrenador * Antonio Tanus *

Víctor Manuel Castro Víctor Manuel Castro (1924–2011) was a Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.Ramírez Berg p.127 Filmography * '' Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''The Unknown Mariachi'' (1953) * '' Raffles'' (1958) * ''Golden Legs ''Golden Legs'' (Spanish: ...

Alfonso Zayas Juan Alfonso Zayas Inclán (30 June 1941 – 8 July 2021), better known as Alfonso Zayas, was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was best known for his participation in many Cinema of Mexico, Mexican sex comedy, sex comedies. In Mexico, Zayas partic ...

* Julián Garcia * José Muñoz as Señor Cantino *

Eduardo Charpenel Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator * Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footbal ...

* Bruno Marquez * Manuel Vargas M. * Oswaldo Fernandez *

Polo Ortín Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small ha ...

Arturo Cobo Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur. People *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer * Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1959), Mexican footballer *Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt (b. 1982), Br ...

* Salvador Saldívar * Francisco Quiles *

José Loza José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* José Wilhelmy *

Armando Acosta Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1979. They are considered to be one of the first doom metal bands, and have been labeled as one of the "big four" of that genre, along with Candlemass, Pentagram and Trouble. Ha ...

as Hombre en restaurante *

Daniel Arroyo Daniel Fernando Arroyo (born 6 October 1966) is an Argentine political scientist, professor and politician. He was the country's Minister of Social Development, in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández, from 2019 to 2021. Since 2021, he h ...

as Espectador * María de Lourdes as Cantante *

Enedina Díaz de León Saints Justa, Justina and Henedina (or Aenidina) of Cagliari ( sc, Justa, Justina et Enedina, it, Giusta, Giustina ed Enedina) (died 130) were Christian martyrs (possibly sisters) of Sardinia, put to death at Cagliari or possibly Sassari. Their f ...

as Cocinera * Vicente Lara as Hombre en restaurante *

Cecilia Leger Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born ...

as Pueblerina * Pedro Mago Septien as Narrador * Paula Rendón *

Carlos Robles Gil Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhe ...

as Hombre en restaurante

References

Bibliography

* Joanne Hershfield, David R. Maciel. ''Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers''. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

External links

* 1958 films 1950s sports comedy films Mexican sports comedy films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Alejandro Galindo 1958 comedy films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub