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Don't Fool Yourself Dear
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Wikipedia article
'Don't Fool Yourself Dear' (Spanish: 'No te engaes corazn') 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). [http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=6587 Cantinflas] at Univision.com, accessed on February 9, 2006Yolo Camotes. [https://periodicolavoz.com.mx/amp/coahuila/monclova/cantinflas-el-dr-jekyll-y-mr-hide-mexicano/193808 "Cantinflas: El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hide mexicano" ("Cantinflas: the Mexican Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")], 'Peridico La Voz' (Coahuila, Mxico). Accessed 2 November 2021. It was also one of the earliest films of Orellana and Sara Garca 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" Bonaf
*Sara Garca as Doa Petronila "Petro" (as Sarah Garcia)
*Natalia Ortiz as Consuelito
*Eusebio Pirrn as Friend of Canti (as Don Catarino)
*Eduardo Vivas as Don Gregorio "Goyo" Vidal
*Cantinflas as Canti
*Carmen Molina as Carmencita
*Joaqun Coss as Seor Rebolledo
*Carlos Villatoro as Alfredo
*Manuel Buenda as Seor Palomares
*Gerardo del Castillo as Friend of Goyo (as G. del Castillo)
*Matilde Corell as Lady Student (uncredited)
*Paco Martnez as Seor Monforte, landlord (uncredited)
*Ismael Rodrguez as Office Worker (uncredited)
*Fanny Schiller as Refugio (uncredited)
*Estanislao Shilinsky as Restaurant Client (uncredited)
*Juan Villegas as Waiter (uncredited)
Critical reception
Introducing an analysis of Cantinflas' career, essayist Carlos Moncivis refers to the actor's performance in this picture as "his disregarded debut in an inauspicious film."Carlos Moncivis. "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.
References
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