Óscar Pulido
Birth : 1906-02-02, Mexico City, Mexico
Death : 1974-05-23
History
Óscar Pulido was born on February 2, 1906 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico as Óscar Pulido Enríquez. He was an actor, known for Escuela de vagabundos (1955), Espaldas mojadas (1955) and Three and a Half Musketeers (1957). He died on May 23, 1974 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Abundio Oropeza, alcalde
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.
Don Tobias
Two neighboring towns have a hostile relationship... but one town has a surplus of marriageable bachelors, and the other has too many young women to marry off locally, so both towns need to get over their damn selves. A hip young priest on a motorcycle is assigned to set things right between them.
Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
Itinerant gunslinger poses as local gal's fiance to protect her from an itinerant blackhat.
Petronilo
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
Western, first of two in series. Sequel: Alias El Alacran.
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime.
Cowboy sheriff investigates the murder of a crooked lucha-libre promoter.
"Gentleman bandit" and his gang execute a series of elaborate heists. #3 of 4 in a series.
Two cowboy bon vivants on the shady side of the law travel from county fair to county fair...
Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.
Priests in a monastery take in a foundling baby. Twenty years later...
Oscar
Various murders are examined by a private investigator.
Bridegroom's life is thrown into chaos on his wedding day, Murphy's Law in action.
Feature on the adventures that develop the most perfect of false priest.
Three tomboyish farm-girls meet mens and start developing their girly sides.
Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Ranchera singer and his sidekick travel to Argentina to mix it up with a playboy who bragged to them about the tour he'd book for them.
First of four in series about Robin Hood-type social-justice criminal. Elaborate heist scenarios.
Rogelio 'Apéndice' Fernández
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Tomás
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.
Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
Don Telémaco, abogado de Fernando
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
(uncredited)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Doll Bazaar Owner
Viruta and Capulina are responsible for rescuing the Sultan's baby, after it's kidnapped by a evil dude.
Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
Kalim Almeja, el gran visir
Mexican feature film
Three hard-partying cowboys go to Mexico City for one last fling before entering into arranged marriages back home.
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned about the future of their musical revue. The new owner seems to be an uptight old Legion Of Decency fuddy-duddy, so... much anxiety, until a happy ending is contrived.
A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Chino Luis
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Tomás
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
Louie Royalville
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
Miguel Valverde
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
Felipe Ochoa
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.
Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt.
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Don Felipe Hermosillo
Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.
Don Ernesto Carmona
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
Don Julio, gerente hotel
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Atenogenes
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Don Ramón Constancia
Three broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show.
Elpidio
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.
Facundo Peláez
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp type.
Fotógrafo
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Bad woman plays men off each other to her advantage; she ends up with about 8 guys she's leading around by the nose. How long can this last?
Dueño de tienda (uncredited)
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
Justo
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Jefe de la secreta
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
Comedy duo try to raise a foundling baby.
Barud
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.
Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove himself.
Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
(uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
