El analfabeto

Sep 7, 1961

2h 8m

★ 7.7

Overview

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

POSA Films

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Cast

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo

Cantinflas

Blanca Morales

Lilia Prado

Doña Epifanita

Sara García

Don Romulo González

Ángel Garasa

Don Fermín

Miguel Manzano

Licenciado Aníbal Guzmán

Carlos Agostí

Refugio González

María Teresa Rivas

El Poca Luz

Daniel Herrera

'El Sapo'

Fernando Soto

Comisario

Guillermo Orea

Jesús López, notario público

Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo

Profesor

Carlos Martínez Baena

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