Historias de la radio

1955 [SPANISH]

Comedy

1
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 603 603

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Plot summary

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.

Top cast

Francisco Rabal as Gabriel
Xan das Bolas as Sargento de la guardia civil
Teresa del Río as Empleada
Carlos Acevedo as Niño
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
895 MB
966*720
Spanish 2.0
NR
us  es  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 2
1.8 GB
1448*1080
Spanish 5.1
NR
us  es  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

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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Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia's enjoyable reminiscence about the golden age of radio.

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on presenters , hosts , guests , radio listeners , public and the various performers in the medium , dealing with three amusing stories . First story deals with several contestants have to go to a radio station studio : Radio Madrid dressed as Eskimo and with dog , one of them is José Isbert who wishes urgently money , three thousand pesetas , for an invention . The second concerning a thief (Angél de Andrés López) answering a call in the house which he's robbing and subsequently his landlord (José María Lado) to be aware about it . And a third one regarding a school teacher (Alberto Romea) who participates in a radio Quiz show called ¨Doble o nada¨ to get money to cure a kid of his village . The stories are linked by a pair of fatty men (Juán Calvo) doing gym hearing radio , the love story of a presenter (Francisco Rabal) and his girlfriend (Margarita Audrey) and appearance by famous speaker Bobby Deglané and through interviews of actual celebrities at the time . Osé María Lado

Entertaining and engaging film with socilal habits , religious sentiment , fraternity and good feeling . The common denominator in all the stories and in the overarching plot is the presence of the radio - it brought music, news, stories, escape and comfort, made stars of everyday people and was often the glue in families and relationships . A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the lives of various attractive characters . Being three different stories very influenced by ¨Luis Garcia Berlanga's Bienvenido Mister Marshall¨ (1952) as well as the Comedian Italian in episodes from the Fifities created by writer/producer Sergio Amadei . In Historias de la radio(1955) stands out a great main and support cast with plenty of familiar faces of the Fifties , giving all of them nice interpretations .

This sentimental motion picture was competently directed by Jose Luis Saenz De Heredia who went on making a sequel : Historias de la Television (1965) with Concha Velasco , José Luis López Vázquez and Alfredo Landa . Heredia was a controversial figure in Spain because of his strong and unabashed support of dictator Francisco Franco . At the beginning his career he was hired by Luis Buñuel , as executive producer , to direct ¨La Hija De Juan Simon¨ (1935) and ¨Quien Me Quiere a Mi¨ . During the Spanish Civil War , Jose Luis Heredia is detained but freed thanks to Luis Buñuel and Santiago Ontañon . Heredia directed various ¨Propaganda films¨ . It is well known the main title ¨Raza¨ written by General Francisco Franco under pseudonym : ¨Jaime Andrade¨ . As Jose Luis became the official filmmaker of the dictatorship , as he writes ¨Escuadrilla¨ (1941) . Posteriorly ,in the 40s , he directs several successful dramas : ¨El Escandalo¨ (43) based on Pedro Alarcón novel , ¨Mariona Rebull¨(1947) based on Ignacio Agusti book , ¨La Aguas Bajan Negras¨ based on Armanado Palacio Valdes , ¨El Destino Se Disculpa¨ based on Wenceslao Fernández Florez , ¨Don Juan¨ based on Don Juan Tenorio by Zorrilla , ¨Bambu¨ about the Cuba War and ¨¨Mies Es Mucha¨. In addition , a very good drama about Carlistas wars : ¨Diez Fusiles Esperan¨ . Heredia subsequently makes inferior comedies as ¨Grano De Mostaza¨, ¨Derechos De La Mujer¨ and ¨La Decente¨ . And various Manolo Escobar/Concha Velasco vehicles such as ¨Pero En Que País Vivimos¨, ¨Juicio De Faldas¨, Relaciones Casi Publicas ¨and ¨Me Debes Un Muerto¨. And other films for Paco Martínez Soria: ¨Se Armo El Belen¨, ¨Don Erre Que Erre¨. His greatest hits were ¨Historia De La Radio¨(1955) and ¨La Verbena De La Paloma¨ or ¨The fair of the dove¨.

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