''Forty Degrees in the Shade'' (Spanish:''40 grados a la sombra'') is a 1967 Argentine-Spanish

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Mariano Ozores Mariano Ozores Puchol (born 5 October 1926) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was a prolific specialist in the sex comedy and Francoist comedy. He is the brother of Jose Luis Ozores (1923–1968) and Antonio Ozores (1928–2010), ...

starring

Gracita Morales María Gracia Morales Carvajal (11 November 1928 – 3 April 1995) better known as Gracita Morales was a classic Spanish film actress with a famous high-pitched voice. She was one of the most popular Spanish actresses of the 1960s and 1970s, i ...

, Antonio Ozores and Manuel Velasco.Cowie & Elley p.488

Cast

as Filomena * Antonio Ozores as Evaristo * Manuel Velasco *

Xan das Bolas Tomás Ares Pena, known as Xan das Bolas (30 October 1908 – 13 September 1977) was a Spanish comic actor active during the franquism with films including ''Botón de ancla ''Anchor Button'' (Spanish: ''Botón de ancla'') is a 1961 Spanis ...

as Portero casa de Evaristo * Rafael Hernández as Taxista *

Vicente Roca Vicente is an Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Latin name ''Vincentius'' meaning "conquering" (from Latin ''vincere'', "to conquer"). Vicente may refer to: Location *São Vicente, Ca ...

José Manuel Martín José Manuel Martín Pérez (born 24 May 1924) is a Spanish retired film and television actor, radio broadcaster, and screenwriter. He was a popular character actor in Spanish cinema during the 1950s and 60s, best remembered for playing villaino ...

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as Caradura *

Alfredo Landa Alfredo Landa Areta MML (3 March 19339 May 2013) was a Spanish actor. Biography He was born in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to wo ...

as Máximo *

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as Patricia *

Julieta Serrano Julieta Serrano Romero (born 2 January 1933 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish theatre and cinema actress. Her prolific career began in the 1960s, and she has worked with directors Pedro Almodóvar and Ventura Pons. In September 20 ...

as Dorotea * Laly Soldevila as Amparo, cuñada de Máximo * Luis Rivera *

Venancio Muro Venancio (Spanish or Tagalog), Venâncio (Portuguese), Venanzio (Italian) or Venantius (Latin) is a masculine given name. Venâncio is also a Portuguese surname. It may refer to Given name ;Venancio *Venancio Concepción, Filipino army general * V ...

as Empleado saneamientos Pereda * José Luis Carbonell *

José Luis López Vázquez José Luis López Vázquez de la Torre MML (11 March 1922, in Madrid – 2 November 2009, in Madrid) was a Spanish actor. Career José Luis López Vázquez was born in Madrid, Spain, on 11 March 1922. He originally worked in theater as a costume ...

as Jacinto * Perla Cristal as Cándida * Goyo Lebrero as Rómulo, camarero * Rogelio Madrid as Carlos, repartidor del supermercado * Mario Morales * Ana María Morales *

Paloma Cela María Luisa Cela Molinero (4 March 1943 – 30 March 2019), better known by her stage name Paloma Cela, was a Spanish actress and model. Biography Born in Madrid, Spain, she started out as a model and made her cinema debut in the 1967 film ''O ...

* Lourdes Albert * Claudine Coppin as Claudine, cantante

References

Bibliography

* Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.

External links

* 1967 films 1967 comedy films Argentine comedy films Spanish comedy films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by Mariano Ozores 1960s Argentine films {{1960s-Argentina-film-stub