Soy un prófugo (1946) Poster

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An enticing and overtalking Cantinflas recital in which he plays a bank cleaner
ma-cortes25 December 2022
Here Cantinflas plays a bank cleaner along with his friend Carmelo : Daniel 'Chino' Herrera . Along the way Cantinflas woos a beautiful shopkeeper , Carmelita : Rosita Gónzalez , whom he promises will marry her . Then the Sochipan National Bank is robbed and they are accused of the robbery. A police officer locks them up in prison, but they finally manage to escape. They board a train and then arrive in the city, where they find a healthy gang of robbers who actually robbed the bank. But Cantinflas, thanks to his new hypnotic qualities, manages to turn the tables.

Cantinflas' agreeable show made in his first and better period , playing an unfortune cleaner , while flirting , solving problems , being wrongly framed for heist bank and eventually confronting criminals . Cantinflas gives a very sympathetic acting as a janitor in a large bank who's accused of pulling off a major heist and forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits. Cantinflas spectacle with his usual tics , baggy pants , his two-piece moustache and talking nonsensical phrases . In ¨Soy un Prófugo¨, Cantinflas forms a couple with another nice humorist, Daniel 'Chino' Herrera with whom he worked on several films, such as : , El Bolero de Raquel , Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita, A volar joven , El gendarme desconocido. And as trivia , add the brief apperance of Rodolfo Acosta who subsequently to be followed a long career in Hollywood as a notorious secondary , usually playing Mexican roles in important Westerns .

Cantinflas career was very long from the Forties to Eighties. Along his fruitful career Cantinflas played good-looking and good-tempered people , mostly low-classes roles . Equally , he performed motley characters with all kinds of jobs , as he was a street cleaner, a teacher , a janitor , a doctor, an actor, an Ambassador , a teacher , a priest , a porter, an extra , an elevador operator , a scientist, a clown, fireman , a Photographer , a student, cowboy , Bellboy , magician , among others . These characters were interpreted by Cantinflas in : El Bombero Atómico, El Profe , El Padrecito , El Extra , Sube Y Baja , El Supersabio, El Mago, El Señor Doctor, Gran Hotel, Señor Fotógrafo, El Analfabeto, Por Mis Pistolas , El Circo, Conserje Para Todo, Su Excelencia , El Barrendero . Adding two succesful Hollywood appearings : Pepe and Around the World in 80 days . The motion picture was professionally directed by Miguel Maria Delgado , Cantinflas's regular, favorite filmmaker , and following his usual style, as he had knowledge enough of cinema to get a lot of entertainment and amusement .
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10/10
This was good
tothextreme209914 March 2003
I own this on video, it's in black and white, but it's good fun. Cantinflas goes to prison and it takes off from there, of course you have to be understand spanish to get this!
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