The best Francisco Jambrina’s comedy movies

Francisco Jambrina

Francisco Jambrina

04/01/1902- 21/01/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Francisco Jambrina’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Francisco Jambrina.

¡A volar, joven!

¡A volar, joven!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1947
  • Character: Capitan
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/09/1940
  • Character: Leonardo del Paso
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

The Great Madcap

The Great Madcap
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1949
  • Character: Gregorio de la Mata
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!

El Supersabio

El Supersabio
7/10
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition

Gran Casino

Gran Casino
5.8/10
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Muertos de miedo

Muertos de miedo
4.8/10
Capulina chip and with the desire to be detectives, work and study to achieve their purpose in this specialty agency. Alma, millionaire detective and vocation, owner of the agency, hires Chip and Capulina after they have been presented and promoted its examination. He entrusts his first mission is to follow the trail to Rostov, famous jewel thief and murderer, for which there is a hefty reward.

El ahijado de la muerte

El ahijado de la muerte
6.9/10
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Every Madman to His Specialty

Every Madman to His Specialty
7.1/10
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.

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