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Miguel 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 (1942 film), The Three Musketeers'' was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''The Unknown Policeman'' (1941) * ''The Three Musketeers (1942 film), The Three Musketeers'' (1942) * ''Doña Bárbara (1943 film), Doña Bárbara'' (1943) * ''El secreto de la solterona'' (1944) * ''Gran Hotel (film), Gran Hotel'' (1944) * ''Michael Strogoff (1944 film), Michael Strogoff'' (1944) * ''A Day with the Devil'' (1945) * ''I Am a Fugitive'' (1946) * ''Fly Away, Young Man!'' (1947) * ''The Genius (1948 film), The Genius'' (1948) * ''The Magician (1949 film), The Magician'' (1949) * ''She and I (film), She and I'' (1951) * ''The Atomic Fireman'' (1952) * ''The Border Man'' (1952) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . 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 list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atomic Fireman
''The Atomic Fireman'' (Spanish: ''El bombero atómico'') is a 1952 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Roberto Soto and Gilberto González.Stavans p.91 The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot A newspaper delivery man-turned-firefighter-turned-policeman (Cantinflas) embarks on the unexpected mission of caring for a girl whose mother died. Cast * Cantinflas as Agente 777 * Roberto Soto as Comandante Bravo * Gilberto González as El Piquete * Elisa Quintanilla as Rosario * Miguel Manzano as Jefe bomberos * Pascual García Peña as El Chueco * Ernesto Finance as Licenciado / notario * Jorge Mondragon as Silverio * Eduardo Alcaraz as Sargento Policía * Ángel Infante as Policía * Pedro Elviro as Secretario (uncredited) * Conchita Gentil Arcos as Vecina de Guadalupe (uncredited) * María Gentil Arcos as Doña Cleofas (uncredited) * Salvador Quiroz as Comandante Cienfuegos (uncredited) * Lily Aclemar as ... [...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 spy 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 ... [...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 th ... [...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, the owner of a successful, prestigious sporting goods store, decides to hire a poor uncouth sports fan as a salesman, after seeing him play an American football game and being impressed. In the meantime, a millionaire woman named Lucy, who is infatuated with Jorge Maciel, a world famous professional athlete who will spend his vacation in Acapulco, is determined to enamor him and takes her chance alongside her sister, much to the chagrin of her friend, who is himself interested in Lucy. Due to a sort of eccentricity Maciel is unknown to everyone since he adamantly refuses to be photographed. When Cantinflas starts working in the store, his lack of business savvy and destructive nature cause n ... [...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 fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Viudas Del Cha Cha Cha
''Las viudas del cha-cha-cha'' () is a 1955 Mexican Musical Comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado. Cast * Amalia Aguilar * Raúl Martínez * Chula Prieto * Andrés Soler * Eduardo Alcaraz Alfredo Vergara Morales (13 April 1915 – 18 April 1987), best known by the stage name Eduardo Alcaraz, was a Chilean-Mexican actor. Born in Santiago, he was based in Mexico since 1951. He appeared in films such as '' Escuela de rateros'' (1 ... * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tailored Gentleman
''A Tailored Gentleman'' (Spanish: ''Caballero a la medida'') is a 1954 Mexican comedy film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Martha Valdés and Ángel Garasa.Pilcher, p. 156. The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot Cantinflas is a model of tuxedos for a tailor shop, wandering around in the streets wearing the tuxedos while also wearing an ad put on his back. In the meantime, he also works as a tailor for his neighbors, and collaborates with Lita (Martha Valdés) and Father Feliciano (Domingo Soler) in the neighborhood's dispensary, where Lita works as a nurse. At the same time, the life of Don Pascual Lachica ( Ángel Garasa), an anguished millionaire whose family only respects him as a provider, is shown. One day after work, Cantinflas arrives to return the tuxedo, but the store was closed, so he takes the ad off his back and returns home while still well-dressed, running on his way home into the wedding of Don Pascual's daughter. Don Pascual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sixth Race
''The Sixth Race'' (Spanish: ''La sexta carrera'') is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Rosario Granados.Amador p.131 It is set in the world of horse racing. Cast * Amparo Arozamena * Manolo Fábregas * Rosario Granados * Prudencia Grifell * Wolf Ruvinskis * Andrés Soler * Fernando Soto * Manuel Sánchez Navarro See also * List of films about horses * List of films about horse racing The following is a list of films featuring horse racing. List See also *List of films about horses * List of highest grossing sports films * List of sports films References {{Horse topics * Films about animals playing sports Horse ra ... References Bibliography * María Luisa Amador. ''Cartelera cinematográfica, 1950-1959''. UNAM, 1985. External links * 1953 films 1953 drama films Mexican drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Miguel M. Delgado Mexican horse racing films Mexican black-and-white film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
