Paulino Masip

Writing

Paulino Masip

Known for

Writing

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17 titles

Paulino Masip (11 May 1899 – 21 September 1963) was a Spanish writer, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter of the Generation of '27. Born in La Granadella, Lleida, Spain, he worked as a journalist and editor in Spain before going into exile in Mexico in 1939 following the Spanish Civil War. He became a Mexican citizen in 1941. In Mexico, Masip devoted much of his career to screenwriting, writing more than fifty scripts for Mexican cinema from 1941 onward. His credits included El barbero prodigioso (1941), El verdugo de Sevilla (1942), La barraca (1944), Jalisco canta en Sevilla (1948), Crimen y castigo (1950), Ahí viene Martín Corona (1951), and Escuela de vagabundos (1954). He frequent…

Known for

Behind the camera

Crimen y castigo poster
4.7

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.

Crimen y castigo

1951

Médico de guardia poster
6.0

The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.

Médico de guardia

1950

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

Ahí viene Martín Corona poster
7.2

Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.

Ahí viene Martín Corona

1952

Entre abogados te veas poster
6.2

Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.

Entre abogados te veas

1951

Cuando los padres se quedan solos poster
6.0

Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.

Cuando los padres se quedan solos

1949

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain! poster
5.5

Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!

1953

The Stone Crucifix poster
6.2

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.

The Stone Crucifix

1956

Soy Charro de Levita poster
6.7

Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.

Soy Charro de Levita

1949

The Intruder poster
6.0

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...

The Intruder

1954

The Barracks poster
6.9

The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.

The Barracks

1945

Las tandas del principal poster
6.8

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.

Las tandas del principal

1949

The Straying Rooster poster
6.5

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.

The Straying Rooster

1952

The Seminarian poster
6.3

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.

The Seminarian

1949

Las tres Elenas poster
6.0

A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.

Las tres Elenas

1954

La Devoradora poster
6.6

After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.

La Devoradora

1946

Paco, el elegante poster
5.4

Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.

Paco, el elegante

1952