Nice and entertaining farce upon a sympathetic teacher with good intentions who comes in a tiny Mexican town to replace another one . As teacher Cantinflas arrives to El Romeral, a little town where he must face many cons to teach ,and many people desire his getaway . Along the way our teacher falls for a widow : Marga Lopez , makes good acts , helping people , fine assistance , and clashes repeatedly with local villains going on exploiting the countrymen . Meantime , Prof. Sócrates García takes on a powerful and nasty wealthy owner Don Marguerito : Victor Alcozer who under their ambitious plans doesn't want that children be educate and eventually reunites neighbours to expel the rebel teacher . Here Cantinflas is simply the coolest teacher eacher ever !
Good-natured and warmhearted Cantinflas comedy , here playing an atypical and likeable teacher. A gentle, satisfying and agreeable comedy with a lot of humorous, enjoyable sketches about an unconventional teacher who delivers teachings , goodness , help and happiness . He is a sui-generis teacher with virtues and shortcomings , but above all , a complete human being . Of course , Cantinflas using his comedy routine consisting of engaging in drawn-out, nonsensical chatter , as well as his physical aspect as two-piece mustache with wide, clean-shaven gap in the middle. The attractive plot is similar to another successful Cantinflas film ¨El Padrecito¨ with a stranger man -a priest or a teacher- arriving in a village to establish his peculiar peace and order .It is the hilarious all new adventure of that imprudent , impish , impossible droll role magnificently played by the splendid Cantinflas. Most laughs are supposed to come from watching the teacher do such outrageous things and organizing peculiar tricks to get his attractive purports . This is a successful , though overlong satire, and in my opinion it results one on the best Mario Moreno Cantinflas movies . Alongside Cantinflas there appears some human and credible roles , special mention for Marga López, who plays widow Hortensia, was married to Arturo de Córdova, who here performed the Governor . This is a simple fun and exhilarating film about an unusual teacher versus a mean wealthy owner along with other adventures and misfortunes shown in a mass collection of vignetttes . Cantinflas' career was very long from the Forties to Eighties . He is responsible for more than one word that is in the modern Spanish language dictionary, including the verb "Cantinflear", which roughly means to talk a lot but say nothing of substance. Cantinflas represents the humble Mexican who wants to overcome himself and accomplish something in life. His fruitful career Cantinflas performed good-tempered and kind people , mostly low-class characters .In 1936 Cantinflas made his first "film," a two-reel advertisement for a trucking company. A year later, he appeared in his first movie for the nascent Mexican film industry, "Asi Es Mi Tierra" : "That's My Country" . Equally , he played motley roles with all kinds of jobs, as he was street cleaner , a teacher , a doctor, an actor , an extra , a scientist , a clown, a fireman , a porter , an elevador operador, a photographer , a prospector , cowboy , a student , Hotel manager , an Ambassador , Bellboy , a police officer , magician , a priest , among others . These roles to be interpreted in films as El Profe , Bombero Atómico, El Supersabio, El Analfabeto, El Extra , Sube Y Baja , El Conserje , El Mago, Por Mis Pistolas , El Circo, Su excelencia, El Señor Doctor , El Señor Fotógrafo , El Patrullero, Por Mis Pistolas , and his last one : El Barrendero.
The motion picture was competently directed by Miguel Maria Delgado in his usual style , and he was Cantinflas' ordinary filmmaker . Rating : 7/10. Above average Cantinflas movie . A childhood favorite , appointed to tremendous fans of the great Cantinflas. Essential and indispensable seeing .
