Marido de Mulher Boa (1960)

I have translated (with minor liberties) the film's press-release synopsis (available on this page).

"Anacleto and Frederico are partners in the firm Pardal and Pardal, a high fashion house. Anacleto is married to Arminda, a former theatrical actress, who has chosen him over Frederico. However, Anacleto remains a womanizer. The two partners buy from Giovanni a lottery ticket for taking part in a sweepstake's grand prize, and then Anacleto gives away fractions of his half to four women: Sueli, Marlene, Virgínia and Sofia, [in the hopes of winning their favors]. The longshot horse on which they have bet wins the race, luckily to Frederico, who intends to use the money to marry Sofia, and unluckily to Anacleto. He desperately tries to get back the "gasparinos" (pieces which comprised a lottery ticket) distributed among the abovementioned women, but Arminda, aware of his maneuver, anticipates him and gets back three of the ticket's pieces, leaving only Sueli's piece to be recovered -- but the latter had already shared it among her work mates. Once all confusion generated by the chase after the ticket's pieces is over, Arminda and Sofia return to their homes, after Anacleto vows to end his womanizing ways."

A slightly different synopsis is given on Wikipedia, and I have translated it also:

"Anacleto and Frederico are partners at Pardal & Pardal high fashion house. Both frequently quarrel because Anacleto married Arminda, to whom Frederico had been engaged. Furthermore, Anacleto is an incorrigible womanizer and, on account of both bearing the name Pardal, Frederico is constantly getting beat up by mistake by men who get angry at his partner's harassment on their wives. Anacleto buys a lottery ticket and distributes fractions of it among his "conquests": he gives one to humble employee Sueli, two to singer Sofia, and a few more to chorus girl Marlene and manicurist Virgínia. When the ticket wins the right to run for a sweepstake's grand prize, Arminda gets word of his misdeeds and, [aiming to give him a lesson], demands that Anacleto show him the ticket. Anacleto goes after the women to recover the ticket's fractions, not knowing that Arminda [follows him] to avoid that he gets them back."

Note: parts which I find doubtful or debatable I have placed between brackets []. In particular, I would like to point out that Arminda states that her real purpose is to learn from other women what she needs to make her desirable to Anacleto, rather than to just "give him a lesson".

This comedy has a few implausible points in its plot, in particular the sum of money which Arminda is willing to spend to recover the ticket fractions, but let's perhaps credit this to her possible innumeracy or to her obsession. Aside from that, it is another Brazilian comedy with the same kind of lowbrow humor which abounded in comedies of that era in Brazil. This one has a considerably smaller amount of musical numbers, and, perhaps as a consequence of that, the repetitiveness of the plot becomes rather tiresome around the last third or so of the movie.

Rating:32