Summary
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 64GoodWatch 68
IMDb7.4
Letterboxd · 551 ratings3.4/5
Audience score50%
Running time
1 h 48 min
A typical length for comedies, +8 min on the typical 100
typical 100108Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 30 countries
+20Released
1941
October 22, 1941
85 years ago
Genres
ComedyCrimeDramaLanguage
Spanish
Original language
Made in
- Mexico
and 26 more36 people
- CantinflasAgente 777
- Mapy CortésLa criollita
- Daniel HerreraComandante Bravo
- Gloria MarínAmparo
- Julio VillarrealJefe de policía
- Agustín IsunzaSargento
- Carlos López MoctezumaMatias Luis Riquelme
- Alfredo VarelaBermúdez
Luis G. BarreiroEmpleado hotel
Consuelo Guerrero de LunaDoña Joaquinita
Carolina BarretCabaretera
Amparo ArozamenaEsposa de enfermo
Estanislao SchillinskyGerente hotel
Alfonso BedoyaGreñas (uncredited)
Narciso BusquetsNiño (uncredited)- ECEnrique CarrilloBorracho en comisaria (uncredited)
Roberto CañedoExtra (uncredited)- RCRoberto CorellCliente Francés de hotel (uncredited)
Joaquín CossProfesor Melo (uncredited)- FCFernando CurielEmpleado hotel (uncredited)
Manuel DondéAmigo vagabundo (uncredited)
Pedro ElviroSecuaz de Riquelme (uncredited)
Enrique García ÁlvarezSeñor Bustamante (uncredited)
Max LanglerPolicía (uncredited)
Directing · 2
- Miguel M. Delgado Director, Screenplay
- Felipe Palomino Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Jaime Salvador Story
Production · 2
- Santiago Reachi Producer
- Armando Espinosa Production Manager
Camera · 1
- Gabriel Figueroa Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Emilio Gómez Muriel Editor
Sound · 3
- Rafael Hernández Original Music Composer
- Howard E. Randall Sound Engineer
- Rafael Ruiz Esparza Sound Engineer
Art · 1
- Jorge Fernández Art Direction
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