Tribute: Cantinflas
SIFF New Cinema Center Sunday October 16 at 12:30 PM
Ahí está el detalle! / That's the Point!
Seattle Premiere
Narrative Feature, 1940
Comedy
Spanish w/ English subtitles
(México) 112 min.
Directed by Juan Bustillo Oro
Cast: Mario Moreno (Cantinflas), Sara Garcia, Joaquín Pardavé, Sofía Álvarez, Dolores Camarillo, Manuel Noriega...
Generally considered the best of Cantinflas' films, he goes to his girlfriend's house and is persuaded to kill her rabid dog "Bobby", who shares the name of a famous gangster. The girlfriend (a maid) convinces her boss (a rich industrialist) that Cantinflas is the missing brother of his wife. The boss then treats Cantinflas like a king so as to eventually benefit from an inheritance.
Sponsored by the Mexican Consulate in Seattle, Microsoft, Televisa Foundation & College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Washington.
