| |  | Director: George Sidney
Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett
Studio: Film Mex Entertainment Inc.
Buy Used: $89.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 34610
Format: Color, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 195 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305272131
UPC: 051153217838
EAN: 9786305272137
ASIN: 6305272131
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1960
Release Date: December 7, 1998
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Condition: VHS. Ex-Video Rental with Original Artwork/Coverbox. Some coverboxes may be cut and inserted in a clear plastic case. Guaranteed to play.
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Back to the basics of song and dance and comedy May 15, 1999
ramansur@webtv.net (Middle America Missouri)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Recently saw this movie on cable encore. wonderful music, dancing and comedy. Cantiflas the sidekick in Around the World, probably Shirley Jones first, Dan Daley always good. The movie is full of cameos by the "Rat Pack" Sinatra et al. 1961 issue but they don't make them like this anymore, unfotunately. Almost 2 hrs of sheer deligful entertainment. .
 The Questions of Pepe March 3, 2007
Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
George Sidney, one of Hollywood's most underrated directors, never made an awful film, but this one comes close, mostly due to its insufferably cloying use of Cantinflas--one of Mexico's smartest, wittiest movie stars ever--but here you'd think he was a moron, a smiling bobblehead of Mexican fold wisdom and simplicity.
Indeed Cantinflas, as "Pepe," whom you might call the original "horse whisperer," is incredibly good in the movie, which makes it a drag to have to give it a big two thumbs down for political reasons. He's not playing a Stepin Fetchit EXACTLY, and in fact he's always seen as wiser than the silly norteamericanos who try to patronize him, but the whole thing about he loves the horse so much he calls him "my son" (not just once but approximately forty or forty-five times) leaves you grating your teeth.
And also it seems to emasculate Cantinflas who was, like Elvis, super sexy. Here the movie pokes fun of the way his pants slide low, low, low down his hips. Au contraire, such ease with undress is one reason why Cantinflas is sex appeal on two legs! And yet through the whole movie you don't even know if he's in love with Shirley Jones or is he just playing Sancho Panza hoping to get his master, the failed Hollywood director Ted Holt (Dan Dailey), into bed with la Jones--here playing a beat bohemian--and doing it rather well too -- of course she's always good no matter what she does, and George Sidney--who directed many glamor girls into performances of real depth and soul and originality, from Kim Novak to Ann-Margret--gives Shirley Jones what she never had elsewhere, a contemporary pizzazz, like street chic.
When she (or her double) dances in the underground nightclub with Michael Mickey Callan, my pulses were on fire!
But basically the movie is a fantastic treasure trove of forgotten performances and curiosities; let me cite only the amazine dance trio of Dailey, Cantinflas, and Maurice Chevalier in a reprise of "Mimi" in a luxurious Mexican nightclub, and at the other end of the spectrum a buzarre, Dali Influenced number in which Pepe and Debbie Reynolds (as herself), dressed in identical "Mexican" costumes, tumble out of the mouth of a giant bottle of tequila and perform a drunken, Jack Cole style tumble dance to, yes, "Tequila." PEPE was Eugene Loring's last film, and the dance director/choreographer, who had done everything from FUNNY FACE to YOLANDA AND THE THIEF in the past, here retires with some of his most inventive and convincing dances--in a movie nobody even knows about. The title number, with Shirley Jones in a dirndl, belting out the song while leadind a donkey and three hundred Mexican extras, and Pepe, down a steep traffic filled hill on the narrowest street in the world, has got to be seen to be believed, and you'll still be scratching your head--why? How? What? Where? When?
Let's bring back PEPE in a big way. If every man, woman and child in the US and Mexico would see it, I'm convinced that -- well, wait a second-- there might be race riots at the border-- and yet it is an unbelievable compendium of fun. With Bing Crosby, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon (in character in his role in SOME LIKE IT HOT), Ann B. Davis, Greer Garson, Bobby Darin, and Edward G. Robinson.
A Classic with more than 25 famous stars - many now gone. July 27, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Pepe is a flimsy story meant to showcase a bunch of Columbia's stars...and it succeeds. Cameos abound and it's fun to "count the stars" as they pass through the story line - especially Greer Garson playing herself, as Mrs. Buddy Fogelson! Most of these stars are gone now, and it's a pleasure seeing them in their heyday. Cantinflas is his usual original self, and the music is fun too! The downside is that the video looks as if it has been copied too many times. Come on, Columbia/Sony, re-release it in its original form. On DVD if possible!
A Classic with more than 25 famous stars - many now gone. July 27, 1999
janc@sierratel.com (Yosemite, California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pepe is a flimsy story meant to showcase a bunch of Columbia's stars...and it succeeds. Cameos abound and it's fun to "count the stars" as they pass through the story line - especially Greer Garson playing herself, as Mrs. Buddy Fogelson! Most of these stars are gone now, and it's a pleasure seeing them in their heyday. Cantinflas is his usual original self, and the music is fun too!
 Pena ajena September 6, 1999
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Lots of Hollywood stars attend this Cantinflas funeral. IT'S DREADFUL! If you haven't seen any Cantinflas movie please don't see this one, or you'll never understand why this genius was once considered by Chaplin "the funniest man alive".
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