Escuela de vagabundos


Escuela de vagabundos School for Tramps is a 1955 Mexican film. It was produced by Fernando de Fuentes. Its considered one of the finest comedies of Mexican cinema, and is adapted from the screenplay for the MGM movie Merrily We Live 1938.

In the surrounding woods, Alberto Medina, a famous songwriter, is on a vacation hunting trip. The old car hes driving suddenly starts heating up and shooting vapor through the radiator, Alberto gets out of the car to search for water but the car, not having on the emergency break, starts going downhill in reverse until it falls off a cliff and gets destroyed, so he has to walk to find help and ends up in the Valverdes home, asking to make a phonecall, but because of his dirty and ragged clothes Emilia takes him for a tramp and invites him to stay with them. After catching a glimpse of Susi Stern, Alberto accepts, despite the protests of Emilias family and their butler Audifs, but in the next days he proves to be more than a regular homeless man helping Miguel when he arrives home drunk, enchanting the heart of Susi, and especially during a business dinner where he secures Miguel a financial investment support from a bank manager, but also making Susi jealous after the managers daughter, Patricia, insists on dating him the next day.Alberto ends up having a date with Patricia, first at a country club and later to an undisclosed place. During that day two patrolmen find the destroyed car at the wreckage and find the owner, who confirms that Alberto was riding the car and they assume he died in the accident. Alberto goes back to the Valverdes later that night and realizes he has no key so he falls asleep in the back room. The next morning when they look for Alberto they dont find him in the bedroom, then Miguel reads a note in the newspaper where they inform he died in a car accident, causing a chaotic chain of faints and madness around the house. During the confusion Alberto finally finds Susi who fainted first and kisses her declaring their love after being briefly interrupted by Audifs, who becomes a tramp after seeing all the lucky they have. ........

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