Here Cantinflas is a gaffe extra in a lot of of shootings , there he meets a young woman who wants to become an actress , but things go wrong . By a twist of fate , the clumsy , but well-meaning botcher handy man and unfortunate extra meets an aspiring actress : Alma Delia Fuentes who at the same time is caring her youngest orphan brothers . After utterly ruining the sets of various films such as : a French Revolution movie , Margarita Gautier , a Western movie and another picture about Aztec Indians , Cantinflas will do whatever things to get a role for the beautiful aspiring actress . What delightful disaster await ? .
This release is an agreeable comedy with the great Cantinflas as an inept and bungler extra. Here Cantinflas is a bumbling extra and a botcher Jack of all trades . He has a role similar to Peter Sellers in the subsequent Blake Edwards' The Party 1968 , concerning a Gaffe who causes destruction , mayhem and usually interrupting the filmings. This sympathetic actor Cantinflas became a world-wide institution . Directed by his ordinary filmmaker Miguel Maria Delgado who had knowledge enough of the mechanics of cinema , getting entrartainment and amusement . Cantinflas had a poor and simple origin , in his beginnings playing on the small stages , and later on , acting in Mexican cinema to the bright lights of Hollywood . He appeared just over 50 movies. In 1937 he made his first feature : Así es mi Tierra . He scored his first big hit with : Ahí esta el detalle or There is the detail . His second major movie was : Neither Blood Nor Sand or Ni Sangre ni Arena . Following a lot of successes as El Gendarme Deconocido, Cantinflas and the three Musketeers , The Magician or El Mago, El Supersabio, Un Día con el Diablo , El Extra , El Padrecito, El Analfabeto, El Bolero de Raquel , Su Excelencia , and his last feature : El Patrullero . And of his Hollywood stay with Pepe and especially the blockbuster Around the World in 80 days produced by Michael Todd and directed by Michael Anderson with a great star-studded cast . In 2014 was made a biopic directed by Sebastián del Amo with Oscar Jenada as Cantinflas and Michael Imperioli as Michael Todd .
