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Santo contra Capulina
Capulina vs. el Santo
Mexico 1969
produced by Alfredo Zacarías for Producciones Zacarías
directed by René Cardona
starring Gaspar Henaine (= Capulina), Santo, Liza Castro, Crox Alvarado, Carlos Agostí, Ángel Di Stefani, Miguel Gómez Checa, Marisela Irigoyen, Juan Garza, Nathanael León (as Frankenstein), Víctor Alcocer, René Cardona III, Jorge Guzmán (= El Hijo del Santo), Rogelio Gaona, Guillermo Hernández
written by Alfredo Zacarías, music by Manuel Esperón
El Santo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Having just gotten a job as night watchman, Capulina makes it his
mission to sleep through the night come what may - so he almost misses the
robbery of the very warehouse he's been put in charge of. Thank God then
for wrestler and notorious do-gooder Santo, who thwarts the robbers' plans
just in time - and soon enough finds out a gang of outlaws uses the
warehouse as a diamond smuggling hub. The baddies, led by wheelchair bound
Cedric (Carlos Agostí) have a scientist (Miguel Gómez Checa) and his
daughter (Liza Castro) in their power, threatening her life to force him
to build life-like robot replicas of Santo's friends to kill him, and
threatening the scientist's life to force his daughter to get friendly
with Santo and unmask him. In the meantime, Santo and Capulina joins
forces, which leads some of Cedric's men to believe Capulina is actually
Santo. Of course, Santo won't be unmasked by the scientist's daughter, and
whatever robots Cedric throws at him, he defeats them all. But it's really
when Santo defeats Capulina's clone and has Capulina pretend to be his
robotic self that he gains access to Cedric's hideout, gives all the
outlaws their comeuppance, and frees the scientist and his daughter, with
the latter confessing to have real feelings for Santo - not that he minds
a bit. Of course, the lucha libre genre as such is ripe for
parody, and Santo is of course the genre's biggest star, so pairing him
with popular Mexican comic Capulina seems like a match made in heaven.
Unfortunately, the film isn't half as funny as it ought to be, mainly
because the film's script seems to be little more than a run-of-the-mill
Santo crime caper with Capulina's comedy just tagged on, and Capulina
basically given the role of comedy relief. The result is what feels like a
crime B picture for the kiddie market with a script that has just a few
many holes and leaps of reason to really work and a direction somewhat
undecided between comedy, action and suspense piece. That said, the film's
not a total mess, it's at least some fun (if at times for the wrong
reasons), it's just not very good, either.
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