1940 | B/N | 112:00 Cantinflas enters a powerful businessman’s home, where his girlfriend works as a maid, to get rid of a rabid dog. The confusion between the dog and a mobster by the same name triggers a series of hilarious entanglements and misunderstandings. You’re Missing the Point was Cantinflas’ first starring film role, now considered one of his best performances. Country: México Direction: Bustillo Oro; Juan Script: Gómez Landero; Humberto, Bustillo Oro; Juan Production: Grovas; Jesús, Beltri; Ricardo Photography: Draper; Jack Sound: Ruiz Esparza; Rafael Music: Lavista; Raúl Cast:Dolores Camarillo, Mario Moreno Cantinflas, Sara García, Noriega; Manuel, Pardavé; Joaquín, Bravo; Antonio, Arozamena; Eduardo, R. Frausto; Antonio, Coss; Joaquín, Isunza; Agustín, Jambrina; Francisco, Sofía Álvarez Participation year at FICM: 2021
1940 | B/N | 112:00 Cantinflas enters a powerful businessman’s home, where his girlfriend works as a maid, to get rid of a rabid dog. The confusion between the dog and a mobster by the same name triggers a series of hilarious entanglements and misunderstandings. You’re Missing the Point was Cantinflas’ first starring film role, now considered one of his best performances. Country: México Direction: Bustillo Oro; Juan Script: Gómez Landero; Humberto, Bustillo Oro; Juan Production: Grovas; Jesús, Beltri; Ricardo Photography: Draper; Jack Sound: Ruiz Esparza; Rafael Music: Lavista; Raúl Cast:Dolores Camarillo, Mario Moreno Cantinflas, Sara García, Noriega; Manuel, Pardavé; Joaquín, Bravo; Antonio, Arozamena; Eduardo, R. Frausto; Antonio, Coss; Joaquín, Isunza; Agustín, Jambrina; Francisco, Sofía Álvarez Participation year at FICM: 2021
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El misterio del rostro pálido Dr. Forti, obsessed with finding the cure for a mysterious disease, experiments on his patients, who die one by one as a result of his medical failures. Desperate, he embarks on an expedition to distant lands to study local medicine with his son Pablo, who then leaves his girlfriend Angélica. Eight years later, the doctor returns from his trip without his son, but with a strange companion who wears a pale mask. See More
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