Funny Landa comedy that results to be a typical comedy of the seventies. Amusing as well as nutty comedy with quite a few silly roles.Here Landa plays Ambrosio, a handy man whom the villagers rely him making their various works . He is married to Elvira, a very jealous wife : Esperanza Roy, both of them living wiith her mother : Mari Carmen Prendes. Then the village hall-town and the Mayor : Adrian Ortega, assign him to go Madrid to buy a bull for the local parties. As Ambrosio arrives in Madrid at a luxury 5 stars hotel where the "Spain Miss contest" is celebrating. And the pageant is presented by Kiko Ledgard and presided by a very famous jury formed by Concha Velasco, Francisco Rabal, Alfonso Paso, Carmen Sevilla and Lina Morgan.
A bemusing, crazy and absurd Spanish comedy with usual ingredients. It is a sex comedy in which stands out Alfredo Landa who in Madrid meets a Miss, Paca Gabaldon or Mary Francis, and appearing on TV national broadcasting, to be aware the villagers they believe he is a stud playboy , then all village women want to make love with him. I spite of be a sex comedy here there isn't nudism, however, other Mariano Ozores films with Pajares and Esteso are plenty of naked girls . In this movie we get to know a little bit about life of small villages, too. Ridiculous and embarrassing plot from Juan Jose Alonso Millan, Rafael Romero Marchent, Juan Jose Porto, and Ozores himself, being supported by a great main and support cast. Here shows up notorious secondaries as Antonio Ozores, Tomas Zori, Francisco Camoiras, Luis Morris, Eva Leon, Rafael Vaquero, Angel Menendez, Mari Carmen Prendes, Mary Francis, and Gracita Morales in his usual role as a maid, as well as Florinda Chico as a prostitute. As Alfredo Landa provides a sympathetic and outstanding performance as the hard-working Ambrosio who has always wishes to sleep due to his continuous and full-time jobs. Landa was one of the most prolific Spanish actors with more than 100 fims generally playing sexually repressed roles and usually directed by Ramon Fernandez, Fernando Merino, Pedro Lazaga, Luis Maria Delgado, and Mariano Ozores. Being most of them fun comedies, and as Landa even created a subgenre : Landismo, dealing regularly with an a repressed man obsessed with sex. These Landa comedies include Manolo La Nuit, Vente a Alemania Pepe, Un Rolls para Hipolito, Profesor Eroticus, Polvos magicos, Paco el seguro, Celedonio y yo somos asi, El apolitico, Los que tocan el piano, Solo ante el Streaking, among others. In the 80s he started playing dramatic and serious roles as Los Santos Inocentes, prize in Cannes for Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa. He won two Goya Awards playing El Bosque animado y La Marrana. And other important films as Bandera negra, Marcelino Pan y Vino, Sinatra and Don Quijote TV series . And especially movies directed by Jose Luis Garci, his fetish actor, such as Crack I, II , Las verdes praderas, Tiovivo 1950, and Story of a kiss.
The motion picture produced by Luis Sanz was middlingly directed by prolific filmmaker Mariano Ozores. He has written and directed about 200 films and TV series, mostly comedies, such as Operacion Matahari, La descarriada, Los autonomicos, Celedonio y yo somos asi, and especially successful were those starred by Fernando Esteso and Andres Pajares as Al Este del Oeste, El currante, Los Energeticos, El erotico enmascarado, El hijo del cura, Los liantes, Yo hice a Roque III, Los Bingueros, Los Chulos, Brujas magicas, Lola los lleva al huerto, Agitese antes de usarla . And even he directed a Scifi : La hora incognita that failed really at boxoffice .
