Ahí está el detalle

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Ahí está el detalle
Directed by Juan Bustillo Oro
Produced by Jesús Grovas (Grovas-Oro Films)
Casa Films Mundiales
Written by Humberto Gómez Landero
Juan Bustillo Oro
Starring Cantinflas
Joaquín Pardavé
Sara García
Music by Raúl Lavista
Cinematography Jack Draper
Editing by Mario González
Juan Bustillo Oro
Release date(s) 1940
Running time 112 min.
Language Spanish
IMDb profile

Ahí está el detalle ("There's the rub", or literally "There's the detail", release internationally as Here Is the Point and You're Missing the Point in the United States) is a 1940 film of the golden age of the cinema of Mexico.

This is generally considered the best of Cantinflas' films. Its last scene is based on the true events involving Mexican criminal Álvaro Chapa and his public declarations that inspired Cantinflas' form of speech for this film. The film was directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and it is based largely on Bustillo's experience as a pro bono lawyer at the Belén Jail. The film was completed in only three weeks and the only problems during filming were caused by Cantinflas' improvisation, because of what he considered to be a poor-written script.

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[edit] Awards

This film was produced before the creation of the Mexican Academy of Film. However, it took the tenth place among the 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico, a list created by Mexican film experts.

[edit] Cast

  • Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" as Cantinflas/"Leonardo del Paso"
  • Joaquín Pardavé as Cayetano Lastre
  • Sara García as Clotilde Regalado
  • Sofía Álvarez as Dolores del Paso
  • Dolores Camarillo "Fraustita" as Pacita
  • Manuel Noriega as judge
  • Antonio R. Frausto as defendant's lawyer
  • Agustín Isunza as prosecutor
  • Antonio Bravo as Bobby Lechuga, "El Fox Terrier"
  • Francisco Jambrina as Leonardo del Paso
  • Joaquín Coss as magistrado
  • Eduardo Arozamena as deaf judge
  • Rafael Icardo as sheriff
  • Alfredo Varela, Jr. as writer
  • Ángel T. Sala as inspector
  • Estanislao Schillinsky as the deaf judge's assistant
  • Max Langler as policía
  • Narciso Busquets as Cantinflas' son
  • Wilfrido Moreno
  • Adolfo Bernáldez

[edit] Plot

Cantinflas goes to his girlfriend's house to kill her rabid dog "Bobby", who shares the name of a famous gangster. The girlfriend, a maid, convinces her boss, a rich industrialist that Cantinflas is the missing brother of his wife. The boss treats Cantinflas as a king to eventually benefit from the inheritance on his name.

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