Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.
A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.