Product Details

• Actors: Eduardo Arozamena, Antonio Bravo, Narciso Busquets, Sara Garcia, Agustin Isunza
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002MHEKA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,893 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The movie deserves 5, the DVD only 2 stars, April 19, 2004

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Juan Carlos Morales "asquel" (Concord, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ahi Esta el Detalle (DVD)

___This is Cantiflas at his best with a strong performance by Joaquín Pardavé and the rest of the cast.
___But there is not much else in this DVD, the images are not even cleaner than what you would get on a regular VHS tape, though frequently better image quality is seen on broadcast TV. The extra material is scant and not worth the effort of looking for it. The English subtitles are not the best but are not terrible.
___Also, the original movie came out without any music except for a quick-paced tune at the opening and closing credits. Here this tune is switched for a danzón and the original credits with cartoon illustrations are also changed for pictures of Cantinflas.
___The worst thing is that in every funny moment, there has been added a music track to "enhance" the joke as in Televisa's Chespirito show. This just breaks the original movie's pace and charm. It is just plain annoying to be shown when one has to laugh in a Cantinflas movie as this is unnecessary.

___Whoever (someone without a sense of humor) thought it possible to improve such a great Cantinflas movie just made it loose some of its luster. Hopefully one day there will be a serious DVD production and treatment of all the movies made in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Currently most of such releases are very bad, of poor quality and only the movies themselves save them from being a zero star and a waste of money.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One of Cantinflas's best...but the DVD quality is vey poor, January 29, 2005

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Roberto Solorzano (Bonita, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ahi Esta el Detalle (DVD)

I always liked this movie and considered it one of the best made by Cantinflas. As far as a movie goes I give it five stars. But the DVD quality is terrible (one star.) The sound and image are bad. The VHS version that I own is much much better, cleaner and clearer . The DVD version also has been cut and is missing a considerable portion of the "wedding ceremony."

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Three stars for the restoration, zero for the butchering, December 2, 2004

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arturo_gtz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ahi Esta el Detalle (DVD)

Be warned, this edition is cut!, almost at the end of the movie, almost five minutes of the film are out of it...

The image is better than the other edition that you can buy, but don't expect a Citizen Kane restoration...

The only pro about this edition is the restoration of the original opening credits (the other edition has a collage of pictures instead of it)

I hope Vanguard Cinema exchange this DVD for one uncut.