Pepe Summary
Director: George Sidney
Genres: Comedy, Musical
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario_Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George_Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a horse for his employer. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion belonging to Pepe's boss and the determined ranch hand decides to take off for Hollywood to get the horse back. Once in this new and strange environment -- where a lot of cameos by the likes of Jimmy_Durante, Frank_Sinatra, Zsa_Zsa_Gabor, Bing_Crosby, Maurice_Chevalier, and many others enliven the action -- Pepe becomes a friend to the alcoholic director. Unfortunately, what is missing here is "Cantinfletico." That is the nickname for the rambling non-sequitur characteristic of Cantinflas that no one else could master. The film was originally released at 195 minutes, then edited down to 157. Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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