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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno was born in Mexico City on August 12th, 1911. The sixth of fourteen children born to Pedro Moreno and María de la Soledad Rey, a middle-class family, he began working from a very young age, trying his luck at trades such as bolero, taxi driver, boxer, bullfighter, and even soldier. He enlisted in the army at 16 years old, pretending he was 21 until he was discharged by a letter from his father.

All these experiences would prove helpful when he decided to dedicate himself to the artistic world, beginning as a dancer and actor in the circus with comedy presentations that in the 1930s caught the attention of Santiago Reachi, a Mexican film producer. His intuition did not fail, and in a few years, Moreno starred in the highest-grossing films in the country under the pseudonym Cantinflas. This character represented the country's working class. The origin of the name remains a mystery and generates a debate with many theories but no certainty.

The tangled way of speaking and full of neologisms, known as the "cantinfl

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Sort of like Cantinflas making a Cold War version of "The Great Dictator".

In 1940, Charlie Chaplin released his classic "The Great Dictator". It used comedy to draw attention to the evils of Fascism and it ended with a beautiful and impassioned speech about brotherhood. Two and a half decades later, the Mexican comic, Cantinflas, released a film which bore many, many similarities to Chaplin's film. Though the times had changed, here in "Su Excelencia", Cantinflas makes fun of the Cold War and the film ends with a very similar sort of speech about brotherhood. Now I am NOT saying this later film is a remake--but I really do think one inspired the other.

The film is set in a world with countries much like the Soviet and Western Bloc nations but all the names of the nations have been changed. Canfinflas plays Lopito--a lowly employee for his nation's embassy. However, in a funny scene, a dinner party is disrupted when they hear of a coup--and the ambassador is replaced. And, by the time the dinner is complete, three M

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Recently I was invited to participate in a poll by naming my 50 favorite comedy films. After much procrastination I turned in my list within two days of the deadline -- the results will appear on the Wonders in the Darkblog later this year -- and almost instantly regretted it. I became conscious of all the comic cinema I have not seen. To be honest, I rarely seek out comedy in the theater; it's not that I lack a sense of humor, but I rarely see a movie with the sole goal of laughing. Still, my list was a sad thing, especially coming from someone who boasts of revealing a "wild world of cinema." I've never seen a Toto movie from Italy or a Tora-san film from Japan. Until this weekend, I'd never seen Cantinflas in his native language. Most Americans of a certain age have seen Mario Morenoin the 1956 Oscar winner Around the World in Eighty Days, the film that seemed to set him up to claim the mantle -- endorsed by no less than Charlie Chaplin -- of the world's greatest movie clown. Moreno, billed at home by both his real and stage names (i.e. "Mario Moreno, 'Canti