Directed byMiguel M. Delgado GenresComedy ActorsCantinflas, Flor Silvestre, Roberto Corell Roles (uncredited) Rating71% Cantinflas is a down on his luck but affable shoe shiner that learns that his compadre has died in an accident. His friend's widow, Leonor (Flor Silvestre) is unable to raise her child, Chavita, so she leaves the kid with Cantinflas so she can go to Guadalajara, Jalisco in order to seek help from her parents. In the first days, Cantinflas goes to work in Chapultepec and Chavita catches a ball that some other children are playing with, and almost ends up in a fight with the owners of the ball. Cantinflas calms down the child by promising he will bring him a new ball.
, 2h8 Directed byIsmael Rodríguez GenresDrama ThemesMedical-themed films, Films about drugs ActorsPedro Infante, Evita Muñoz "Chachita", Carmen Montejo, Blanca Estela Pavón, Rafael Storm, Miguel Inclán Roles Señor juez (uncredited) Rating77% Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe "El Toro" (Pedro Infante) lives with his adopted daughter "Chachita" (Evita Muñoz) and woos pretty Celia, known as "La Chorreada" (Blanca Estela Pavón). Around them, a group of people live their lives in many different ways: a pair of always-drunk women are known as "La Tostada" (Toasted") and La Guayaba" (Guava); a beautiful woman (Katy Jurado) who's a sleepy-head La que se levanta tarde (The one who wakes up late); and a mysterious hooker nick named: La Tisica ("TB ridden one") with tuberculosis and a dark past.
, 2h Directed byIsmael Rodríguez GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ActorsPedro Infante, Blanca Estela Pavón, Irma Dorantes, María Eugenia Llamas, Alejandro Ciangherotti, Antonio R. Frausto Roles Sacerdote Rating80% Raised separately in three villages in La Huasteca (a region in the northeastern Mexico), Lorenzo, from Tamaulipas, is an atheistic bronco; Juan de Dios, from San Luis Potosí, is a parish priest; while Víctor, from Veracruz, is a captain in the army. Their great physical resemblance is a source of conflict. Juan de Dios tries to solve the problems with his two brothers. Mexican superstar Pedro Infante played in three separate roles as each of these three individual triplets.
, 1h40 Directed byRaúl de Anda GenresDrama, Musical ActorsMaría Antonieta Pons, Carlos López Moctezuma, Emma Roldán, Arturo Soto Rangel, Roberto Corell Roles Juan, mayordomo Rating61% In Papantla, Veracruz, the orphan girl Maria Antonia (María Antonieta Pons) lives with Don Anselmo (Arturo Soto Rangel), a peasant producer of vanilla and his wife Trini (Maria Gentil Arcos), who adopted her since she was very small. Arrives from the Mexico City the lawyer Esteban (Carlos López Moctezuma), son of Don Anselmo, and in the feast of the Corpus he dazzles with the beauty of María Antonia. the villain intoxicates the girl with the purpose to possess her. He returns to Mexico City and he promises to María Antonia that he come back for her when he has triumphed. Don Anselmo seriously ill and María Antonia travels to Mexico City to tell Esteban, who does not want to receive in his luxury apartment. Maria Antonia is alone and to the mercy of the dangers of the city, until she meets the young Andres (Luis Aguilar) and his friend Pizarrín (Fernando Soto "Mantequilla"), who give her asylum in their neighborhood.
, 1h41 Directed byIsmael Rodríguez GenresDrama, War, Romance ThemesPolitical films ActorsPedro Infante, Salvador Carrasco, Carlos Riquelme, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Miguel Inclán, Arturo Soto Rangel Roles Oficial Rating68% At the beginning of the film, there is a young man who decides to become a soldier to defend Mexico from an incoming invasion by the French army. After enlisting, he fell in love with a young lady, but it turns out that she is the niece of the French ambassador to Mexico. In one battle where the Mexican forces were near the brink of defeat, the soldier, Luis, decides to grab a trumpet and play the song "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra", the National Anthem of Mexico. Upon hearing the anthem played, the soldiers rally and overcome the French forces. However, Luis is shot and dies in the end at the same time his love escapes imprisonment.