Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
DirectorMiguel M. Delgado
WritersCantinflas, Tito Davison
Part of
Includes: No te engañes corazón, Así es mi tierra, Águila o sol, Siempre listo en las tinieblas, Jengibre contra Dinamita, The Sign of Death, Cantinflas boxeador, Cantinflas Ruletero, Cantinflas y su prima, You’re Missing the Point, Ni sangre ni arena, The Unknown Policeman, Carnaval en el trópico, The Three Musketeers, El circo, Romeo y Julieta, Gran Hotel, One Day with the Devil, Soy un prófugo, ¡A volar, joven!, El Supersabio, El Mago, El Portero, El Siete Machos, Si yo fuera diputado, El bombero atómico, El señor fotógrafo, Tailored gentleman, Drop the Curtain, El bolero de Raquel, Love Your Neighbor, Up and Down, Pepe, El Extra, Entrega Inmediata, Your Excellency, El profe, The Minister and Me, El patrullero 777, El Barrendero
