Platillos Voladores, Los

Mexico • 1956 • 95m •

• Directed by: Julián Soler. • Starring: Adalberto Martínez, Evangelina Elizondo, Andrés Soler, José Venegas 'El Bronco', Amalia Aguilar, Carlos Riquelme, Famie Kaufman, Pepe Ruiz Vélez, Julián de Meriche, Roberto Y. Palacios, Arturo Castro 'Bigotón', Daniel Arroyo, Lonka Becker. • Music by: Manuel Esperón.

An inventor and his girl friend have created a flying race car. Hoping to use it to win the big race and therefore, earn enough money to finally marry, they take off. Unfortunately, they crash in a remote village. The terrified villagers take the couple for Martians and bring in a noted professor and his crew to examine them. The duo do nothing to tell the officials otherwise and use their alien status to improve life for the villagers. In time they finally tell the professor the truth. To their surprise, he claims he knew it all along, but didn't want to disappoint the excited villagers. Soon after their marriage the happy twosome embark upon their honeymoon only to be abducted by real life Martians and whisked into space.

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This is a pretty obscure Mexican comedy which now seems to be a lost movie. It is mentioned as the first-ever Mexican movie about UFOs. I happen to have a Mexican lobby card of it. The illustrations and the one still, featuring a female alien and a robot, on that card, make me think that it might have been partially influenced from the British-made DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS from 1954. Web searches on Spanish-language sites come up with almost nothing. The only bit of information that I could find on this movies is that it was about a guy and his girlfriend pretending to come from outer space. If that plot synopsis is correct, then the movie would be a parody.

Review by Kaya Ozkaracalar from Istanbul, Turkey from the Internet Movie Database.

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