Ricardo Adalid

Movies

Chanoc en el Circo Union
The comic book hero foils animal smugglers in the circus.
Cananea
Funcionario gobierno
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
El bueno para nada
Marido celoso
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
Besos, besos... y mas besos
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
El vals sin fin
Padre Romero
El metiche
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Jesús, el niño Dios
El juicio de los hijos
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Tres amigos
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Los siete proscritos
A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.
Mi padrino
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
Un nuevo modo de amar
A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem.
Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies
Doctor (uncredited)
Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to investigate and prevent Hans plans, the evil leader of the organization.
Your Excellency
Portero de asamblea (uncredited)
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Así amaron nuestros padres
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Las dos galleras
Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight.
De color moreno
Reportero
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Vámonos para la feria
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
The Phantom of the Operetta
Hombre en teatro (uncredited)
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Impaciencia del corazón
Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
La última lucha
Promotor teatral
Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
Sonatas
Oficial (uncredited)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
A sablazo limpio
Carcelero (uncredited)
Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials.
Locos Peligrosos
Empleado de hotel
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
La adúltera
Amigo de Raúl
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
Los tres amores de Lola
(uncredited)
Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.
Seven Cities of Gold
Pilot Perez
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
A Woman Without Love
Cliente de Carlos (uncredited)
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Si yo fuera diputado
Empleado teatro (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
María Cristina
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Canasta Uruguaya
Jugador de cartas (uncredited)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
La reina del mambo
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Víctimas del pecado
Cliente cabaret (uncredited)
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
El Portero
Amigo de Raúl en fiesta (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
La malcasada
Hipócrita..!
Doctor 2
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Gabino
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Yolanda
About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
Jesus of Nazareth
Joven rico
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
When the Children are Gone
Luis (as Luis Adalid)
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
Ni sangre ni arena
Miembro cuadrilla (uncredited)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
El Cementerio De Las Aguilas
Juan Escutia / Francisco Márquez
Historical drama, French occupation of the 1830s.