The Tyrant Father


O Pai Tirano lit. The Tyrant Father is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by Antnio Lopes Ribeiro, starring Vasco Santana, Ribeirinho Francisco Ribeiro, Leonor Maia, Teresa Gomes and Laura Alves. It is one of the best known comedies of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, still popular six decades after its release.

Francisco Mega Ribeirinho, a clerk at the then leading department stores of Lisbon, Grandes Armazns do Grandella, is in love with Tato Leonor Maia, who works in front at Perfumaria da Moda. Tato, however, is a cinephile who largely ignores him, whereas Francisco is also an amateur theatre player so his amateur theatre company, the Grandellinhas, uses its rehearsals of the play O Pai Tirano ou O ltimo dos Almeidas to present Francisco as a son who split from his tyrant father for love, and woo Tato.Among them, a scene almost at the end of the movie, where one of the members of the theatre company, middleaged Mr. Machado a caricature of the dontbothercouldntcareless Portuguese takes his new girlfriend to dinner at the theatre buffet. To each request the lady makes, the item is unavailable, so they ask what she wants, and they repeatedly request two glasses of white wine. ........

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