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The Extra (Spanish: El extra) is a 1962 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas and Alma Delia Fuentes. In the film, Cantinflas plays a man who works as an extra through several films. [1] [2] This was the last Cantinflas film whose art direction was made by long-time set designer Gunther Gerzso. [3]
Both Cantinflas and Tin Tan utilized cross dressing to portray comedy in their films. In a rare collaboration, the film Viaje a la Luna (1957) joined popular comedians of the time including Tin Tan, Viruta y Capulina and memorable supporting actress Vitola and actor Chabelo(who also worked with Cantinflas in El Extra).
He played el pelado, an impoverished Everyman, with hopes to succeed. With mutual admiration, Cantinflas was influenced by Chaplin's earlier films and ideology. El Circo (the circus) was a "shadow" of Chaplin's silent film, The Circus and Si yo fuera diputado ("If I Were a Congressman") had many similarities with the 1940 film, The Great ...
In Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity, Professor Jeffrey M. Pilcher reached similar conclusions, saying, "A lack of artifice and sophistication had always been part of [Cantinflas's] wise fool character, but in El analfabeto, he no longer appeared wise, merely a fool", theorizing that Cantinflas "adopted the innocent simpleton" from ...
El extra (1962) Buenas noche año nuevo (1964) Los reyes del volante (1964) Escuela para solteras (1965) Los dos rivales (1966) Autopsia de un fantasma (1968) La princesa hippie (1968) El aviso inoportuno (1968) Bang bang al hoyo (1970) Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa (1971) Chabelo y Pepito contra los monstruos (1973) Chabelo y Pepito ...
Cantinflas is a 2014 Mexican biographical comedy-drama film directed by Sebastián del Amo. Based on the life of actor and comedian Cantinflas, the film stars Óscar Jaenada as the title character, Michael Imperioli, Ilse Salas, Bárbara Mori, Ana Layevska and Adal Ramones. It premiered on September 18, 2014 in Mexico. [5]
Miguel Melitón Delgado Pardavé (17 May 1905 – 2 January 1994) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter best known for directing thirty-three of Cantinflas' films, under contract of Posa Films. He directed 139 films between 1941 and 1990.
The Doorman (Spanish: El portero), [1] also known as Puerta, joven (Spanish: Door, Young Man or The Door, Please), [2] [3] [4] is a 1950 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Silvia Pinal and Carlos Martínez Baena. [2] It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City.