Nudista à Força (1966)

*spoilers below*
A decadent opera singer is giving a solo concert in São Paulo. Her henpecked husband is her accompanying pianist. After the concert, they head for the airport to catch a flight to Rio de Janeiro. At that time, a counterfeiter who happens to be an exact lookalike of the singer's husband is arriving from Argentina. The Interpol is after him, and he knows it. Instead of boarding the plane for Rio de Janeiro, where his contact would lead him to some absconded money printing plates, he wanders through São Paulo with the intention of misleading his chasers. However, one member of the police team mistakenly follows his lookalike to Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the plane, he befriends the opera singer's young daughter. Meanwhile, the counterfeiter gets hit by a car in a street of São Paulo, and is taken to the hospital, where he is put under permanent police surveillance. At the Rio de Janeiro airport, the singer's husband is mistaken for the criminal by the latter's associates (the leader of which is the criminal's girlfriend), is forcefully dragged into a car and taken to their hideout. At the hospital in São Paulo, the criminal escapes through the hospital's window. After some more incidents, all of them find themselves at a nudist club, which is where the printing plates are buried.
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Mediocre comedy whose only relatively noteworthy aspect is the presence of a well known (at the time) comedian at a dual role, one of which is played straight, and the other comically. His comical style strongly relied on his singular face and the grimaces he was able to produce. The writer and director is the prolific Victor Lima (1920-1981), who, according to IMDB, directed 37 movies, wrote (or co-wrote) 57, and apparently does not have a single photo of him appearing anywhere on the Internet. In 1966 alone, when this film was made, he made four movies (or had them released). This movie has a stronger stylistic kinship to the commercial French cinema of the time than to the American one.

Rating: 31