La Vendedora de fantasías

1950 Argentine film

1950 (1950)

Running time

97 minutesCountryArgentinaLanguageSpanish

La Vendedora de fantasías (The Fantasy Saleswoman) is a 1950 Argentine crime comedy film directed by Daniel Tinayre. It stars Mirtha Legrand and Alberto Closas.

Plot

Marta (Legrand), a department store clerk, aids her police detective fiancé (Closas) in hunting down a gang of jewel thieves. She awakens to later realise that it was all a dream.^[1]

Cast

Mirtha Legrand as Martha
Alberto Closas as Roberto / Aníbal Ferro, "Pulguita"
Alberto Bello as Jaime
Homero Cárpena as Lavanca / policeman
Nathán Pinzón as El Cabezón
Beba Bidart as Olga Bernard
Francisco Charmiello as Pancho
Diana de Córdoba as Woman in hotel
Pilar Gómez as Catalina / mother of Alberto
Haydée Larroca as Cholita
Miguel Ligero as Garófalo
Alberto Quiles as Mucamo
Ramón J. Garay as concierge
Alberto Barcel as chief of police
Luis García Bosch as Borracho
Manuel Alcón as jewelry buyer
Carlos Belluci as Sereno
Fernando Campos
Carmen Llambí as telephonist
Jesús Pampín as director of orchestra

Reception

The critic King thought it was "good cinema and another opportunity to laugh" and Noticias Gráficas considered it a "funny, agile and very well filmed police farce". Film writers Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela write: "Successful at the time, today it can be seen as an exercise of formal and conceptual arbitrariness. Valued in part by the critics, it retains some effective moments."^[2]

References

^ Thompson, Currie Kerr (28 May 2014). Picturing Argentina : myths, movies, and the Peronist vision. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781604978797.
^ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor. p. 605. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.