The best Rafael Alcayde’s comedy movies

Rafael Alcayde

Rafael Alcayde

19/10/1906- 27/08/1993
We present our ranking of the best Rafael Alcayde’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Rafael Alcayde.
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Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man
7.3/10
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone
6.7/10
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

Soy un prófugo

Soy un prófugo
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1946
  • Character: El jefe
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

The Powers Girl

The Powers Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/01/1943
  • Character: Vandy Vandergrift
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.

Let's Go Native

Let's Go Native
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/08/1930
  • Character: Argentine Producers' Representative (uncredited)
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, not in New York. Her friend Wally Wendell, whose grandfather does not approve of his relationship with her, wants him to marry a girl he hasn't seen for some years named Constance Cook, whose grandfather is the owner of a ship traveling to Buenos Aires and Constance

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 08/11/1940
  • Character: French Correspondent (Uncredited)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

Abajo el Telón

Abajo el Telón
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1955
  • Character: Jefe de banda criminal
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way
6.4/10
An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

Kiss and Make-Up

Kiss and Make-Up
5.9/10
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.

When Ladies Meet

When Ladies Meet
6.5/10
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

The Golden Arrow

The Golden Arrow
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 23/05/1936
  • Character: Prince Peter
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

Music Is Magic

Music Is Magic
6.2/10
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Broadway Gondolier

Broadway Gondolier
6.4/10
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red
6.3/10
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Wise Girl

Wise Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/12/1937
  • Character: Prince Ivan
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.

The Mark of the Skunk

The Mark of the Skunk
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 15/06/1950
  • Character: Capitán don Gaspar de Cadereyta
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Mexican Spitfire Out West
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1940
  • Character: Travel Clerk
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings

Straight, Place and Show

Straight, Place and Show
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/09/1938
  • Character: Boris Borokov - Russian Jockey
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.

Doughnuts and Society

Doughnuts and Society
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/03/1936
  • Character: Ivan Petroff
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.

También de dolor se canta

También de dolor se canta
7.3/10
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

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