La corte de faraón

Comedy · 1944

Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.

Starring

Mapy Cortés, Rodolfo Halffter, Gloria Schoemann, Fernando Cortés, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna, Manuel Esperón, Julio Bracho, Roberto Soto, Alfredo Varela, Ignacio Torres

Director

Julio Bracho