¿Dónde pongo este muerto? (1962) Poster

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6/10
Entertaining Black Comedy with lots of messes , mayhem , laughs and confusion
ma-cortes6 February 2021
An amusing comedy dealing with Elsa : Claude Arnold and Ramon : Miguel Gila , a couple just married . They are the winning couple of the contest patronized by the popular detergent Espumin whose advert reprentative : Fernando Fernan Gómez accompany them across the honeymoon . Everything is going ordinarily when a scientific is murdered by a nasty band to take a key and then someone puts the body into the trunk of the new marriage. Along the way they are pursued by a nasty gang and some undercover agents to retrieve a key that opens a secret device. Along the way they stop at a hotel run by a gossip hotel clerk : Julia Caba Alba .

Diverting and disconcerting comedy with ironic dialoge , intrigue , amusement , funny incidents and anticlimatic final. It deals with a just married marriage whose honeymoon is sponsored by an advertising campaign run by Fernando Fernan Gómez , things are going smoothly when someone puts a body in the car boot then happenings go awry . Concerning the messes , antics , chases that take place when protagonists attempt to get rid the body at whatever means , nevertheless , the dead always goes back . The comedy is divided in three scenarios : two hotels and the road that links them . The fun and bemusing script was written by Jose Luis Colina , Manuel Ruiz Castillo and Pedro L Ramírez himself . As the main premise of the movie results to be a lost corpse that starring attempt to hide by all means . Main cast give sympathetic interpretations : the humorist Miguel Gila , the great Fernando Fernando Gómez and the unknown but gorgeous Claudia Arnold of short career . They are well assisted by an acceptable support cast , such as : Gustavo Re , Jose Campos , Gloria Osuna Jose Thelman, and the always likable veteran Julia Caba Alba who steals the show as a nosy recepcionist.

The motion picture was amusingly directed by Pedro L Ramírez. He was a fine Spanish professional who started working for director Rafael Gil. He made sucessful comedies as his film debut : Recluta con niño 1955 , Los Ladrones somos gente honrada 1956 based on the homonyms novel by Enrique Jardiel Poncela , La Cenicienta y Ernesto 1957 , El Tigre de Chamberi 1957 , all of them written and produced by Vicente Escriva . He went on shooting comedies : El Gafe , Fantasmas en casa , Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada and two intriguing comedies : Crimen para recién casados and ? Donde pongo este muerto? . And a Manolo Escobar vehicle set in War of Independence titled : Los Guerrilleros . Subsequently , he made Paella Westerns as Judas toma tus monedas , Clint el solitario, , Ninguno de los tres se llamaba Trinidad and Giallos : El pez de los ojos de oro and El Colegio de la Muerte. Rating 6/10 . The movie will appeal to Fernando Fernan Gómez and Miguel Gila fans as well as Spanish comedy enthusiasts .
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