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Reviewed by shu-fen

Tribute to radio

Easy, easy... Señor Alberto Mallofres-Pantoja de España, the very first commentator of this movie. Actually no need to feel furious. Europeans or Americans may not have enough taste to appreciate Spanish goody movies but Hong Kong Chinese do. This movie was once on show in our city in mid-90s and it did sell well. Good movies do attract quality viewers, no worry, no worry. Big thank you the our local film professionals.My very first Spanish movie was Almodovar's "Tacones lejanos", hunky Miguel Bosé plays a weird guy, just fantastico. And so I started to see more of the Spanish films. The release date of "Historias de la radio" surprised me because it was produced during Franco's reign, a time where freedom of press or expression was repressed.It's a warm comedy of how radio connected people when TV was not yet largely introduced in Spain. Three stories about two inventors, a theif and people from a village. I especially remember the quiz-show with live audience. When the presenter asks the audience who knows the name of the footballer who made a goal in a certain match some 20 years ago, an old man raises his hand and gives a very detail answer. The presenter feels strange and asks how come he knows that, the old man replies that he was that footballer.I don't want to compare this one with Woody Allen's because this one was produced far too many years advance, a pioneer of the genre. The pretty face of Carmen (by Margarita Andrey) is very impressive. What a pity that she had a very short acting life. Her father was a Swiss official who job was related to film industry. After she got married in 1955, (the release date of this movie), she retired from the camera. In 1953, her movie "Aeropuerto" was awarded National Syndicate of Spectacle, Spain (Premio del SNE).A definite for viewing of the entire family. DVD is available now, check the websites in Spanish, yet no idea whether subtitles of other languages are available. Caveat emptor.

Reviewed by Hedgehog_Carnival

Dated, wincingly sentimental, mildly entertaining

By the time he made this, Sáenz de Heredia (who also filmed the Generalísimo's pungent attempt at a movie script, "Raza") was as efficient a facilitator of respectable, high-gloss, low-calorie regime-friendly entertainments as they come. Where this one deserves most credit is in the storyline, which contrives to hang several short tales onto a single narrative thread. The device works, and this in combination with a suavely persuasive offscreen narrator gives a sense that "the radio" is not merely a plotting pretext, but the object of a genuinely felt tribute. Of course we're talking not about the radio as instrument of government propaganda, nor as purveyor of mindless muzak, but as something that gets fat middle-aged men out of bed in the morning (to do slimming exercises), gives humble inventors the chance to win money for their prototypes (by dressing up as eskimos), persuades thieves to reach agreement with their intended victims in donating money to the Church, and allows old schoolmasters to win money in a quiz game called "Double or Nothing", in order (natch) to send a sick child to Stockholm for treatment.When Heredia tries his hand at straightforward slapstick, as with the José Isbert number of the eskimo-inventor with the dangerous dog early in the film, it's quite nicely done, and the laughs come easily. When he laces the comedy with sentimentality, and deliberately racks up the sentiment in a steady crescendo throughout, it would take a very undemanding (or old-fashioned) audience nowadays not to get restless. That a dispute (for example) between would-be burglar and intended victim is resolved by a Parish priest is perhaps sociologically admissible; that this priest should be portrayed as a paragon of wisdom and Christian virtues is perhaps understandable given ths strictures of censorship and so on; but the sentimental excesses of this movie go well beyond that, and include a penitent bread-thief in a church, a dying boy whose every other script sentence contains a Noble Gesture; and a schoolmaster who is so well aided by the praying boy and the intercession of Saints, that he develops a previously unsuspected footballing career. If this kind of thing doesn't stand up so well nowadays (not to mention statues of saints that come alive) it's perhaps just a question of fashion. All the same, you end up thanking your nearest St Antony for the genius of a Berlanga, who could make a film funny without playing any of the cheap sentiment cards that this movie has recourse to. Watchable but terminally dated.

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Historias de la radio

1955 [SPANISH]

Comedy

Historias de la radio

1955 [SPANISH]

Comedy

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Tribute to radio

Dated, wincingly sentimental, mildly entertaining

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