This comedy by Fernando Merino, which adapts a play by Jaime de Armiñán deals with Professor Emilio Vallejo (Alfredo Landa) regrets his plans to wed and runs away to the big city, where he shares a flat with four single young ladies. He has left his girlfriend in Zamora on the eve of the wedding and with the arrival of Alfredo Landa to Madrid, and stay in a room in the apartment shared by his ex-bride's friends (Mónica Randall, Mirta Miller, Silvia Tortosa) and after a new tenant (Tina Sainz) appears. At first, the latter receive him with reluctance, but little by little, they will all feel attracted to Emilio. And then the bewildered professor is become for the virtues of a singular object of desire, the " intellectual" sexually harassed by various female typologies.
The premise of this overly theatrical comedy dealts with a fake identity and a character out of context is not entirely bad, however its development after the arrival of our protagonist in the big town becomes a complete nonsense. The recurring jokes and attitudes don't work, with some quite annoying characters; and the crazy derivation of the plot is forced. This movie, done at the end of the franquist regime , can be viewed as a testimony of those times, when Spain was socially divided between the perpetuation of its traditional conservatist order and primitive values and a social change that was patent abroad and in many ways attained the society and the new generation. An uneven comedy in low budget, it results to be an arbitrary non sense in the eccentric roles , as well as their actions and motivations. ¨Apartment for singles¨or ¨Pisito para solteras¨ nor is it understood what Landa does in the apartment after the escape from the wedding, among other things. Aside from some sparks provided by the voyeur neighbor played by Luis Varela, the sympathetic prostitute Josele Román and Rafael Hernández as the night watchman. And here stands out a good support cast giving brief, but likeable acting, other secondaries as Tina Sainz, María Arias, Mari Carmen Prendes, and the three young and beautiful progonists: Silvia Tortosa, Mirta Miller, Mónica Randall who'll have long and fruitful cinematic careers.
Alfredo Landa gives a nice acting as the ordinary average Spanish, a shy, gray, repressed role coerced by social conventionality. Landa was not the actor to play Shakespeare , but it seems this character was made for him. Alfredo Landa (3 March 1933 - 9 May 2013) was a great Spanish actor. He was born in Pamplona (Navarre), Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work with university school groups. He left university to work in the theater. After working as a dubbing actor for a short time in the 1950s, he debuted with his first considerable role in film in José María Forqué's Atraco a las tres in 1962. Other essentila roles were in : Forty Degrees in the Shade by Mariano Ozores , Un diablo bajo la almohada by José María Forqué , Los subdesarrollados by Fernando Merino , Los que tocan el piano by Javier Aguirre , No somos de piedra Manuel Summers , La dinamita está servida by Fernando Merino , Tío ¿de verdad vienen de París? Mariano Ozores , Esclava te doy by Eugenio Martín , Mayordomo para todo : Mariano Ozores , Alcalde por elección : Mariano Ozores , El puente : Juan Antonio Bardem , Borrasca : Miguel Ángel Rivas , Historia de S. : Francisco Lara Polop , El rediezcubrimiento de México : Fernando Cortés.. When Francisco Franco died in 1975, censorship began to disappear. This led to a growth of erotic comedies on Spanish cinema. Landa became the "sexually repressed" role of that trend, especially under directors Mariano Ozores and Pedro Lazaga. He even created his own trend, that some people called landismo. Afterwards, Landa changed his image, taking much deeper roles, like his bandit in El Bosque animado .And with filmmaker Jose Luis Garci: Las verdes praderas , began a new important period with hits as Crack I and Crack II .
A silly and laughing screenplay by the successful author Jaime de Armiñan and script by Silvio F. Balbuena. The motion picture was regularly directed by Fernando Merino and shot in fits and starts. Merino was a craftsman and professional director who achieved hits and flops. He is brother to also filmmaker Jose Luis Merino. And director assistant, as he assisted films as Tulipan negro, Fra Diavolo, Madame Sans Gene, Los tramposos, Armas para el Caribe, La venganza de Don Mendo. And directed a few films, especially comedies, such as : El erotismo y la Informatica, La dinamita esta servida, Pisito de solteras, Los dias de Cabirio, Prestame 15 dias, Amor a la Española, Requiem para un empleado, though also made other genres as adventure : Dick Turpin, thriller : Comisario G en el caso del Cabaret and drama : Lola espejo oscuro . And TV series as the known and popular Curro Jimenez .Rating 4.5/10 average. The film will appeal to Alfredo Landa fans .
