Miguel M. Delgado Movies

Criminal factions wage war over control of Florida's underground economy of drugs and guns in this crime thriller. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

An all-star cast of popular Mexican comics appears in this uneven sex comedy. A wife paints a nude picture of her husband who suspects infidelity when he is not portrayed as being anatomically correct. A veterinarian becomes obsessed over a beautiful showgirl, and the devil emerges from hell to enjoy the earthly pleasures of bar hopping. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

When a Latino pimp messes with the Mafia, he finds himself in a dangerous situation. Dialogue is in Spanish. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

This entertaining entry in the long-running Mexican fantasy series stars Gina Romand as Frankenstein's daughter, who remains eternally youthful thanks to the blood of young virgins. She's also a mad scientist who mummifies her own aunt (Lucy Gallardo), creates a Frankenstein-like monster called Ursus, and uses a gorilla-like henchman to try draining the superhuman blood of Santo (Rodolfo Guzman Huerta). The heroic, masked wrestler must team up with the hulking, disgruntled Ursus to foil her evil plans. Roberto Canedo co-stars with Carlos Suarez, Carlos Agosti, and Gerardo Zepeda. Director Miguel M. Delgado would contribute several films to the Santo series, including the same year's monster-mash Santo y Blue Demon contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cantinflas, known the world around for his Jerry Lewis-style antics, seems more like Peter Sellers in this hilarious Mexican comedy. Short on plot but long on laughs, the innocent comedian falls victim to excellently contrived cliches as a special delivery man caught in the middle of intrigue and spies. Cantinflas also expands into singing and dancing opportunities. The film also features a spectacular Latin dance sequence by Rafael de Cordoba. ~ Lucinda Ramsey, All Movie Guide

In this fairly effective matrimonial farce by director Miguel M. Delgado a couple of newlyweds are having a difficult time settling down to an idyllic honeymoon. They have too much to argue about. Ana Luisa Pelufo plays the distaff side of the battling duo, and Mauricio Garces is cast in the role of her husband/opponent. As sure as night follows day, these two lovers are certain to get over their differences and patch it up -- but will that take the entire honeymoon to accomplish? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

With the kind of down-home humor (south of the border style) that appeals to many people around the world, this bedroom farce by Miguel M. Delgado has several hilarious moments. The premise is ancient: a poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This routine Mexican Western spoof by Miguel M. Delgado stars Luis Aguilar and Lalo ("Piporro") Gonzales as a pair of old codgers at odds with each other. The two men are like night and day, one tends toward the decent, good side of life and the other just tends to disagree with him. Their two sons (also played by Aguilar and Gonzales) are similarly different from each other, but are oddly enough paired with the wrong father. The "good" dad has the "bad" son, and vice-versa. After several shoot-outs, romantic liaisons, and other classic Western scenes, the dueling quartet come to realize that the sons were switched at birth. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Each year for several years running, Cantinflas, one of Mexico's most popular and beloved comics, came out with a new film, and Sube y Baja is his 1959 offering. As in most of these films, Cantinflas plays a set role or roles, such as a doctor or a priest. In this case, he is the model sports "hero." He is a football player and a speedboat racer, also a rich man and a poor one, and in all cases, he keeps to the character he developed long ago -- that of the double-talking, fast-talking, funny-talking slippery man who confounds everyone and keeps Spanish-speaking audiences laughing and coming back for more each year. As in his other films, his intriguing looks and "adorable" attitude attract women with no problem. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost Generation" protagonists. Tyrone Power heads the cast as American news correspondent Jake Barnes, who, after incurring a injury in WW I that has rendered him impotent, relocates to Paris to escape his troubles. Barnes links up with several other lost souls, including the nymphomaniacal Lady Brett Ashley (Ava Gardner), irresponsible drunkard Mike Campbell (Errol Flynn) and perennial hangers-on Robert Cohn (Mel Ferrer) and Bill Gorton (Eddie Albert). In their never-ending search for new thrills, Barnes and his cohorts trundle off to Spain, where they participate in the annual Pamplona bull run and act as unofficial "sponsors" of handsome young matador Pedro Romero (played by future film executive Robert Evans). Additionally, Lady Brett pursues a romance with Jake, despite her engagement to the dissolute Campbell. Filmed on location in Pamplona, Paris, Biarritz and Mexico, The Sun Also Rises was budgeted at $5 million; like many "big" pictures of the era, it tended to be hollow and draggy at times. The film's best performance is delivered by Errol Flynn, though it can be argued that, in taking on the role of the hedonistic, hard-drinking, burned-out Mike Campbell, he was merely playing himself. A vastly inferior version of The Sun Also Rises was produced for television in 1984. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide