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El Portero (1950) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1950 · 113 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Miguel M. Delgado
- Starring
- Cantinflas, Lupe Carriles, Ricardo Adalid, Enrique Carrillo, Lupe del Castillo, Jaime Jiménez Pons
Cantinflas is a porter who, while still in school, earns money drafting letters and speeches on a typewriter. He falls for his wheelchair‑bound neighbor Silvia Pinal, but a young soldier also loves her. Determined to help, Cantinflas becomes a Cyrano, writing love letters for the soldier and a horse‑race win will pay for the operation to let her walk.
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