Se los chupó la bruja

Se los chupó la bruja
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Directed by	Jaime Salvador
Written by	Ramón Pérez Peláez
Story by	Pedro Galindo Pedro de Urdimalas
Produced by	Pedro Galindo
Starring	Marco Antonio Campos Gaspar Henaine Sonia Furió Octávio Arias
Cinematography	Ezequiel Carrasco
Edited by	Jorge Bustos
Music by	José de la Vega
Production company	Filmadora Chapultepec
Distributed by	Películas Nacionales
Release date	26 February 1958 (1958-02-26) (Mexico)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Se los chupó la bruja ("The Witch Suckled Them") is a 1958 Mexican horror comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring the double act Viruta y Capulina (Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine), Sonia Furió, and Octávio Arias.

Plot

Viruta and Capulina are two brothers who are trying to invent a system in which water works as a substitute for gas for vehicles. Don Caritino, their landlord, has tried to get their fourteen-month due rent. Viruta and Capulina refuse to pay their due rent, so Don Caritino proposes them to convince their goddaughter Gloria to date him. In return, he will let them forget about the rent.

Viruta and Capulina are surprised when they are told they have inherited, along with their cousin Reynaldo, their great uncle's monetary estate and mansion in "El callejón de las ánimas". There is a hidden treasure in the mansion that their great uncle tried to find. The mansion's butler and his wife, are urgingly tying to find the treasure. The couple scares Viruta, Capulina, Gloria, and Reynaldo out of the mansion, so that their plan they can go on with their searching.

Their luck turns around when Reynaldo calls the sheriff to arrest the butler and his wife. Viruta and Capulina show their water energy invention to the sheriff in the butler's car, but the butler had poured gasoline into the gas compartment a few moments before. So Capulina lights a match and pours it in, and an explosion occurs.

The explosion cracked a column where the treasure was hidden, Viruta and Capulina found the treasure and gives some to the sheriff. Reynaldo's greatest treasure is Gloria (Viruta and Capulina's goddaughter), who has developed a romantic relationship with him.

Cast

• Marco Antonio Campos as Viruta
• Gaspar Henaine as Capulina
• Sonia Furió as Gloria
• Octávio Arias as Reynaldo
• Yerye Beirute as the Superintendent
• José Jasso as the Butler
• Armando Arriola as don Caritino
• Lupe Carriles as the Housekeeper
• Felipe de Flores as Policeman
• Armando Espinosa as Policeman
• Mario García "Harapos" as the Superintendent's secretary
• Elia Mendéz as Gloria's personal assistant
• Los Tres Caballeros as the musical trio of the Cisne Negro club
• Alberto Catalá as Lawyer Bermejo (uncredited)

Reception

Production started and ended in 1957,^[1] and the film premiered in the Palacio Chino movie theater on February 26, 1958.^[2]

DVD release and restoration

Under the production of Tekila Films, the film was digitally remastered in sound and picture quality for exclusive release in DVD in 2008. Se los chupó la bruja was released in an eight-film four-disc pack entitled, "8 Exitasos de la Comedia". It was also released by itself in a one-disc DVD.

References

1. At the end of the film, the Roman numeral "MCMLVII" is shown–which means that it was already completed by that year.
2. Amador, Maria Luisa (1985). Cartelera cinematográfica, 1950-1959. Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográfico, Dirección General de Difusión Cultural, Dirección Editorial, UNAM. p. 606. ISBN 9789688373279.

External links

• Se los chupó la bruja at IMDb