''Poor But Honest'' (Mexican:''Pobre, pero honrada!'') is a 1973 Mexican

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directed by Fernando Cortés and starring

María Elena Velasco María Elena Velasco Fragoso (17 December 1940 – 1 May 2015) was a Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and dancer. She is best known for creating and portraying La India María, a comical character based on indigenous Mexican women. Ea ...

Fernando Soler Fernando Soler (born Fernando Díaz Pavia; 24 May 1896 – 25 October 1979) was a Mexican actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He was considered one of the most important figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In his career spanning ...

and Norma Lazareno.Mora p.162 It was made at the Estudios América. It was one of a series of films featuring Velasco as the comic character

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as María *

as Don Abundio * Norma Lazareno as Marcela *

Ángel Garasa Ángel Garasa Bergés (12 December 1905 – 27 August 1976) was a Spanish-Mexican film actor.Pilcher p.85 Garasa was born in Madrid and emigrated to Mexico in 1937, fleeing the Spanish Civil War. Selected filmography * ''The Three Musketeers'' ( ...

as Padre Bonifacio *

Adalberto Rodriguez Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Adalbert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It derives from the Old German '' Athala'' (meaning noble) and ''Berth'' (meaning bright). Notable people ...

* José Ángel Espinoza as Chimino *

Raúl Meraz Raúl Meraz Estrada (March 13, 1927 – April 20, 1996) was a Mexican actor of film and television. Selected filmography *''Balajú'' (1944) - Pueblerino (uncredited) *''La casa chica'' (1950) - Invitado a fiesta *''La fiera'' (1956) - Jos� ...

as Ayundante de don Abundio * Héctor Herrera * Julián de Meriche as Doctor Villegas * Alicia del Lago as Enamorada de don Abundio *

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as Viejito * Elena Contla as Criada de don Abundio *

Jorge Fegán Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...

Jaime Manterola Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

* Alfonso Zayas as Borracho *

Patricia Olmos Patricia is a female given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word ''patrician'', meaning "noble"; it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. The name Patricia was the second most common female name in the United State ...

Pura Vargas Pura may refer to: Places * Pura, Kushtagi, a village in Koppal district, Karnataka, India * Pura, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Pura, Tarlac, a municipality in the Philippines * Pura, Switzerland, a municipality in Ticino, Swit ...

* Manuel Dondé *

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. H ...

* Fernando Cortés *

José Luis Jiménez José Luis Jiménez Marín (born 8 August 1983), nicknamed ''Guachupé'', is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a forward. Club career Jiménez played at Universidad de Chile youth ranks until 2003, but he left the team beca ...

References

Bibliography

* Mora, Carl J. ''Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004''. McFarland & Co, 2005.

External links

* 1973 films 1973 comedy films Mexican comedy films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Fernando Cortés 1970s Mexican films Spanish-language comedy films {{1970s-Mexico-film-stub