Los tres García (1947)

Best movie of this year hands down!

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Blistering performances.

This comedy is a bit of a change of pace for Pedro Infante. This Mexican superstar usually played very nice characters in his films-- respectful, kind and sweet. Here in "Los Tres García", by contrast, he along with his two cousins are total jerks! Yes, like a typical Infante film he is the lover--but this one, Luis Antonio García, believes in making out with as many women as is humanly possible...as well as fighting and being a general hellraiser. As for his cousins, José Luis García and Luis Manuel García, they are also hellraisers--who love to scrap with each other and who are also lovable rogues. This drives their grandma crazy, as they are just like their deceased fathers! Of course, watching this feisty woman, it's easy to see that the apple didn't fall far from the tree!The film finds Grandma about to celebrate a birthday and the cousins try, though not very well, to stop their fighting and act like a happy family. But two huge problems intervene--a pretty American lady arrives and all three fall for her and additionally the López brothers are coming to kill them! Apart from that, everything is just fine!This is a very enjoyable and light-hearted film. It's undemanding and fun. I laughed at a few of the comedic scenes--such as the photos on the wall and during the dance. My only complaints are minor. During one of the singing numbers where the three cousins serenade the girl (though she isn't actually home), the lip syncing isn't very good. Also, a serious problem, but not the fault of the filmmakers, is the lousy captioning--like the Spanish-speaking interpreter really didn't know English all that well!

This Movie could be consider as the first great hit between Ismael Rodriguez and Pedro Infante ,they had worked together in two movies before as actor-director, and was the last ,before this(Cuando lloran los valientes,1945)in that we can see the magnitude of this duet.Los Tres Garcia, a classic of the Mexican cinematography, tells the story of the three Garcia cousins fighting for the love of their other Girl cousin(in second grade)the 'gringuita' Marga Lopez who came from the Unite States to visit the Garcias'town and her Grandmother(the authoritarian and extraordinary Sara Garcia) And get worst the already damage relationship between the three cousins, all this around of the war of two families the Lopez vs Garcias.Tells in a very agile rhythm,Ismael Rodriguez gives to this Comedy the right interpret for every personage, and could be one of the better points, and project in every one of the Garcia's Cousins the characteristics of the Mexican society at the forties, in this way we can see the rich cousin(Victor Manuel Mendoza),who had academic education was pedantic and a loan shark, represented the Mexican bourgeois, the poor one(Abel Salazar)without other defense but his honor and proud, represented the working and oppressed class and the last one a lazy,reveler,unworried and ladies' man(Pedro Infante), represented the every day more increased middle class, and was this cousin who gets the real identification with the public, (maybe 'cause he represented that every Mexican men would want to be) besides Pedro Infante gives to this personage all his good-natured required in which any other actor could be pathetic, and was precisely this movie which accelerated his career as an actor and give him since that moment the adoration of the public that any other Mexican actor-actress has enjoyed until this moment, almost fifty years after his dead.Nowadays Los Tres Garcias is one of the most repeated Infante's movie by the open TV, only surpassed for Nosotros los Pobres(another Rodriguez-Infante movie)and the new generations can enjoy it (I can prove it!) like our grandparents did, and specially our grandmothers.