La odalisca No. 13 (1958)

Directed by

Fernando Cortés

Genre

comedy film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

B

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends get mixed up with a harem and a sultan in a desert fantasy setting. They get into slapstick situations involving a mysterious odalisque and a magic lamp.

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What happens

La odalisca No. 13 ("Odalisque Number 13") is a 1958 Mexican comedy film produced by Miguel Zacarías, written and directed by Fernando Cortés, and starring Viruta and Capulina, Germán Valdés «Tin-Tan», María Antonieta Pons, Lorena Velázquez and Donna Behar. It is the sequel to the Tin-Tan's film of the same year, A Thousand and One Nights, in which also appeared Pons. This is Viruta and Capulina's first and only color film alongside Tin-Tan (filmed in Eastmancolor, also considered as Mexico's Technicolor), and the second part of a trilogy of fantasy films based in the desert, including Los legionarios (1958) and Los tigres del desierto (1960). The film was said to be "not only a very popular Mexican movie but also a complex parody that involved Mexico City's turn-of-the-century modernist fascination with odalisques". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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