Highest rated movie: Your Excellency (1967)
Lowest rated movie: Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)
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Looking for reviews of Cantinflas movies? Cinafilm has a total of 18 reviews across 6 movies.
Movies starring Cantinflas have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Your Excellency - released in 1967 - is Cantinflas's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 5 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Cantinflas is Un Quijote sin mancha - released in 1969 - with a score of 52% based on 1 reviews.
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a Mexican comedian and stage and film actor, known professionally as Cantinflas. I have often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin. The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin's eleven commented that I was the best comedian alive. and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as costarring with David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, I also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous labor politics. Although he was himself politically conservative, his reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of co-opting and controlling unions.
Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, india, and linguists, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthropist, a venture capitalist, a transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog.
Cantinflas has acted in films with Pedro Elviro, Eduardo Alcaraz, Víctor Alcocer and Roberto Meyer.
Cantinflas has worked with these film directors: Miguel M. Delgado, George Sidney and Arkady Boytler.
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