''Don't Fool Yourself Dear'' (Spanish: ''No te engañes corazón'') is a 1937 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Miguel Contreras Torres and starring Carlos Orellana. It is the first full-feature film of Mexican comedian

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format on October 26, 2004.

Plot

Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

Cast

* Carlos Orellana as Don Bonifacio "Boni" Bonafé * Sara García as Doña Petronila "Petro" (as Sarah Garcia) * Natalia Ortiz as Consuelito * Eusebio Pirrín as Friend of Canti (as Don Catarino) * Eduardo Vivas as Don Gregorio "Goyo" Vidal *

as Canti * Carmen Molina as Carmencita * Joaquín Coss as Señor Rebolledo * Carlos Villatoro as Alfredo * Manuel Buendía as Señor Palomares * Gerardo del Castillo as Friend of Goyo (as G. del Castillo) * Matilde Corell as Lady Student (uncredited) *

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as Señor Monforte, landlord (uncredited) * Ismael Rodríguez as Office Worker (uncredited) * Fanny Schiller as Refugio (uncredited) * Estanislao Shilinsky as Restaurant Client (uncredited) * Juan Villegas as Waiter (uncredited)

Critical reception

Introducing an analysis of Cantinflas' career, essayist Carlos Monciváis refers to the actor's performance in this picture as "his disregarded debut in an inauspicious film."Carlos Monciváis. "Cantinflas and Tin Tan: Mexico's greatest comedians," ''Mexico's cinema: a history of film and filmmakers'' (Joanne Hirshfield and David R. Maciel, Eds.), Scholarly Resources: Wilmington, DE, 1999, p. 55.

References

External links

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