This is the film that established the comedian Cantinflas as a superstar-the Charlie Chaplin of Spanish-language films. But where Chaplin used silence, Cantinflas's urban vagabond, the “peladito,” confronts the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Mexican middle class with words-lots of them, brilliantly woven into a web of semantic confusion. (His unique wordplay prompted the Spanish Royal Academy of Language to admit the word cantinflada to describe nonsensical chatter.) Puns propel this hilarious comedy in which Cantinflas, “in low-riding pants over a union suit and a funny narrow-brimmed hat...is delightful and mischievous as a layabout pressed into posing as the long-lost brother of a pompous, obtuse industrialist (Joaquín Pardavé, who became Cantinflas's regular fall guy). Director/co-writer Juan Bustillo Oro, a major figure in Mexican film comedy, piles on the plot absurdities and gags” (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times).