Ambitious, insensitive mother blocks daughter's marriage by telling her fiance a lie about her.
A gaggle of sex-workers face everyday problems and gradually find their way back to respectable wife-and mother-hood.
Señor Youseff, Patrón (segment "Las Cucarachas")
Priest
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Juan
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.
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
(uncredited)
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Señor Comisario
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
Don Santiago
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Policía (uncredited)
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Profesor Magaña
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.