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and starring

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, and

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. A massive box office hit in Spain, the film became a linchpin for the mega-successful and profitable formula of Spanish sex comedies.

Plot

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, a provincial town, Andreu, a handsome gynecologist, opens his practice without any success, as he is too attractive for the husbands and boyfriends of his patients not to be jealous of him. While Dr. Andreu fails miserably, the dressmaker Antón, owner of a boutique and with a reputation of being effeminate due to his manners and his little dog, makes the husbands feel confident in him, letting their wives shop in his boutique. Dr. Andreu goes to

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to attend a gynecology conference and, dragged by his colleagues, decides to go to a cabaret. There, the doctor is frightened to see how Antón, his neighbor from the fifth floor, without a wig and displaying all his hidden masculinity, is having a great time between two beautiful women. When discovered, Antón confesses to Andreu that he pretends to be homosexual so as not to have problems with the husbands of his clients. Later he takes him to his apartment where, through a telescope, they flirt with two beautiful hostesses from the apartment across the street. Shortly afterwards they return to Toledo. There everything is gossip and provokes the same comment: what dirty friendship unites the gynecologist with the sensitive dressmaker?

Cast

as Antón Gutiérrez *

as Pedro Andreu *

as Jacinta *

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as Socorro *

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as Jacinta's mother *

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as Luis *

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as Matilde *

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as Jacinta's grandmother *

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as Fred Corleone

Release and reception

The film premiered in Madrid in October 1970 and became one of the most commercially successful Spanish films of the early 1970s, earning at least 177.5 million pesetas at the box office and watched by over 4 million people. Stewart King and Jeff Browitt consider the film to be the "most representative of a highly idiosyncratic comedy genre that flourished in Spanish cinema in the last years of the Franco regime". declared the film "one of the most aesthetically void ..and morally repulsive ..films ..ever produced. dennounced the film to be "worse than homophobic", "oligophrenic, machista".

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