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The Illiterate One is a film of genre Comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado released in USA on 7 september 1961 with Cantinflas

The Illiterate One (1961)

The Illiterate One
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Released in USA 7 september 1961
Length 2h8
Directed by
Genres Comedy
Rating71% 3.573193.573193.573193.573193.57319

El analfabeto (English: The Illiterate One) is a 1961 Mexican comedy film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas, Lilia Prado, and Sara García. It is the second Cantinflas film presented by Columbia Pictures.

Synopsis

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him that he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos, which he has only to claim by producing his baptismal certificate as proof of identity. However, as an illiterate, Inocencio has no idea of the contents of the letter. While waiting for the local druggist to wait on him so he can have the letter read to him, Inocencio is embarrassed to see that a customer's young daughter is already able to read while he, a grown man, cannot. He leaves without telling the druggist his problem, resolved to go to school and to wait to learn the letter's contents until he can read them for himself, so that never again will he have to share private matters with others because of his own ignorance. After registering at school, he stops by the local bank to ask for a job, having quit his previous employment that morning. Leaving the bank, he meets Blanca, an attractive young woman newly arrived in town, and shows her the way to her new place of employment, partly to avoid admitting he cannot read the written address. The daughter of Blanca's employer is entertaining her fiancé, Aníbal, who finds Blanca appealing and begins to make advances on her almost immediately. These advances are spurned each time; the final time, Aníbal warns her she will regret her refusals.

Actors

Cantinflas

(Inocencio Prieto y Calvo)Lilia Prado

(Blanca Morales: Inocencio's girlfriend)Sara García

(Doña Epifanita)Ángel Garasa

(Don Romulo González)Carlos Agostí

(Licenciado Aníbal Guzmán)
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