Don't Fool Yourself Dear
Don't Fool Yourself Dear | |
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Directed by | Miguel Contreras Torres |
Produced by | Miguel Contreras Torres |
Starring | Carlos Orellana Sara García Cantinflas |
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Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
Don't Fool Yourself Dear (Spanish: No te engañes corazón) is a 1937 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Miguel Contreras Torres and starring Carlos Orellana. It is the first full-feature film of Mexican comedian Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater).[1][2] It was also one of the earliest films of Orellana and Sara García and the first where they share the screen.
This film was released in DVD format on October 26, 2004.
Plot[]
Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
Cast[]
- Carlos Orellana as Don Bonifacio "Boni" Bonafé
- Sara García as Doña Petronila "Petro" (as Sarah Garcia)
- as Consuelito
- as Friend of Canti (as Don Catarino)
- as Don Gregorio "Goyo" Vidal
- Cantinflas as Canti
- Carmen Molina as Carmencita
- as Señor Rebolledo
- Carlos Villatoro as Alfredo
- as Señor Palomares
- as Friend of Goyo (as G. del Castillo)
- as Lady Student (uncredited)
- as Señor Monforte, landlord (uncredited)
- Ismael Rodríguez as Office Worker (uncredited)
- Fanny Schiller as Refugio (uncredited)
- Estanislao Shilinsky as Restaurant Client (uncredited)
- as Waiter (uncredited)
Critical reception[]
Introducing an analysis of Cantinflas' career, essayist refers to the actor's performance in this picture as "his disregarded debut in an inauspicious film."[3]
References[]
- ^ (in Spanish) Cantinflas Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine at Univision.com, accessed on February 9, 2006
- ^ Yolo Camotes. "Cantinflas: El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hide mexicano" ("Cantinflas: the Mexican Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"), Periódico La Voz (Coahuila, México). Accessed 2 November 2021.
- ^ Carlos Monciváis. "Cantinflas and Tin Tan: Mexico's greatest comedians," Mexico's cinema: a history of film and filmmakers (Joanne Hirshfield and David R. Maciel, Eds.), Scholarly Resources: Wilmington, DE, 1999, p. 55.
External links[]
- 1937 films
- Spanish-language films
- 1937 comedy-drama films
- Mexican films
- 1930s Spanish-language films
- Mexican black-and-white films
- Mexican comedy-drama films
- 1930s comedy film stubs
- 1930s drama film stubs
- 1930s Mexican film stubs