Pepe

Pepe

Movie |

Mexico | Horse

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  • Genre(s): Comedy, Musical
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): George Sidney, David Silver, Marshall J. Wolins
  • Cast(s): Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalbán, Vicki Trickett See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h 37min
  • Music: André Previn,Johnny Green,Maury Winetrobe,James Z. Flaster,Charles J. Rice
  • Award(s): Golden Laurel 1961 (Won)
    Oscar 1961 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Moment, Piece by Piece
  • Story:
    Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
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Pepe - Cast

Pepe - Crew

STORY

Story
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

AWARDS

Won
Golden Laurel Award

Top Musical | 1961

Top Female Comedy Performance | 1961 | Janet

Nominations
Oscar Award

Best Film Editing | 1961

Best Cinematography Color | 1961

Best Art DirectionSet Decoration Color | 1961

Best Costume Design Color | 1961

Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture | 1961

Best Music Original Song | 1961 | Dory

Best Sound | 1961

Golden Globe Award

Best Motion Picture Musical | 1961

Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1961

Best Original Score | 1961

Golden Laurel Award

Top Musical Score | 1961 | André

Top Male Comedy Performance | 1961

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Final film appearance of both Billie Burke and Charles Coburn who appear together in the same sequence.

Due to the failure of this film, Cantinflas never worked in Hollywood again. Some of his friends claimed that he got angry every time someone mentioned this movie to him.

Pepe (1960) premiered in Hollywood on December 27, 1960. The Columbia Pictures feature, starring the Mexican film star Mario Moreno, Cantinflas, in the title role, was directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably, Around the World in 80 Days (1956), produced in 1956 by Mike Todd. The hilltop swimming pool sequence was filmed on property owned by Brian Aherne and Joan Fontaine. The Eastern property point overlooking Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles, and the panorama to the West, was located at the end of North Crescent Heights Boulevard, adjacent Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard and Laurel Canyon. Columbia Studios' "Pepe" art director Ted Haworth selected the location for the swimming pool scene-encounter. The studio built a full size swimming pool, on the bluff overlooking Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard. The entire set was fabricated on the bluff for this scene, with the four columned two-story (Aherne-Fontaine) mansion as the backdrop for reverse camera angle shots. Upon completion of filming, everything built for the setting was removed, with the property restored back to the original condition. During the mid 1960s, after Aherne and Fontaine's divorce in 1959, the mansion hill-top was sold, abandoned, becoming a Sunset Strip hippie enclave fort; the mansion was demolished in the late 1960s; Great Western, sub-dividing the hill-top, developed home sights selling for approximately $350,000 to $500,000 in the late 1970s.

Despite its cult classic status as one of Hollywood's most legendary flops, Pepe (1960) has never been released in the United States on home video in any format.

Final movie of Donna Reed also final film of actress Lela Bliss and Bunny Waters.

Popular Dialogues

"Suzie Murphy: [watching her boyfriend dance with another woman] Men make me sick. With no effort, I could hate them all. Pepe: [sitting beside her] You mean, you hate Pepe? Suzie Murphy: You? Of course not. I never even think of you as a man."