Como
perros y gatos
(Like Cats and
Dogs)
(Filmadora Chapultepec,
1968)
Producer: Pedro Galindo; Director: Miguel M. Delgado;
Adaptation: Janet Alcoriza and Pancho Córdova; Story: Janet
Alcoriza; Photography: Ignacio Torres; Music: Sergio Guerrero; Film
Editor: Jorge Bustos; Union: STPC; Eastmancolor
CAST:
Angélica María (Rosa Morán), Enrique Guzmán
(Carlos Cobián), Amedee Chabot (Ester), Andrés Soler (Carlos
Morán), Kippy Casado (Berta), Susana Cabrera (Rosa Cobián),
Berta Moss (Irene Morán), Eduardo Alcaraz (Sr. Cobián),
Horacio Salinas (Edgardo)
NOTES: this is one of the few Amedee
Chabot films I have not yet seen. Angélica María and Enrique
Guzmán were popular youth stars (and singers) of the '60s
(Angélica María had actually begun her career as a toddler
in the early 1950s).
Rosa and Carlos are both amateur race-car
drivers (he is actually an engineer and she is studying psychology at the
university), who do not get along well. Unfortunately, their parents
(their fathers are business partners) would like them to get married! Rosa
and Carlos give romance a try, but they bore each other. The parents,
after attending a performance of "Romeo and Juliet," decide to try
"reverse psychology" on their children: they pretend that there is a
"feud" between the families so that Rosa and Carlos will naturally fall in
love. Also in the mix are Ester, who says she likes Carlos, and Edgardo,
who claims to be in love with Rosa (the old jealousy gambit). The plot
bears fruit, so much so that Carlos and Rosa plan to elope, but it turns
out that this is a false alarm (they are actually just going to the races
which are being held at the airport).
Until I manage to see this
film, I cannot comment on it, except to note that (of course!) Amedee
Chabot has at least one scene in a bikini, according to a still I have
seen.
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Posted 16 April
2000 by David Wilt (dwilt@umd.edu)