Directing
Humberto Gómez Landero
Born — Died
1904-01-01 — 1968-06-27
Place of birth
Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
33 titles
Known for
8.2Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
You’re Missing the Point
1940
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Huapango
1938
4.1Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La mujer que engañamos
1945
5.6An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Las tapatías nunca pierden
1965
5.8The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
1942
6.7Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
Behind the camera
8.2Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
You’re Missing the Point
1940
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Huapango
1938
4.1Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La mujer que engañamos
1945
4.1Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La mujer que engañamos
1945
5.6An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Las tapatías nunca pierden
1965
5.6An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Las tapatías nunca pierden
1965
5.8The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
1942
6.7Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
6.0Some 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
6.0Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.
Cuando quiere un mexicano
1944
6.0Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
Una pasión me domina
1961
6.6Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
El que tenga un amor
1942
7.6An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
Músico, poeta y loco
1948
6.3Mexican feature film
Rosalba
1956
5.6Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
Guardián, el perro salvador
1950
6.0Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Así amaron nuestros padres
1964
7.3Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax.
The Noiseless Dead
1946
6.0Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
1964
6.0Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
1964
6.2If you survive the first half with his delicious absurdity, your reward is the second half, on the scenes when he teams up with his "carnal" Marcelo singing American, Cuban and Argentinian music, but ending with a very Mexican serenade. If you ever saw Jorge Negrete singing in a movie you'll laugh to tears when Tin Tan sings. And with the lighting effects, you can see actual flashes of Jorge Negrete until you hear him singing.
El niño perdido
1947
6.4A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter.
Al son de la marimba
1940
6.5Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
Dark Angel
1942
6.2Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.
Con la música por dentro
1947
6.2Two men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.
El sexo fuerte
1946
6.5Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
El Gran Makakikus
1944
6.3In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
In the Times of Don Porfirio
1940
6.5Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...
Lástima de ropa
1962
5.4Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.
La divina garza
1963
5.8Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
Caballo a caballo
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Nuestros odiosos maridos
1962
7.6A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
The Naughty Son
1945
7.6A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
The Naughty Son
1945
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Bonitas las Tapatias
1961
