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...They Know Everything." As U.S. reporters got their conducted tour, a young man with the code name of "Pepe" who had escaped to Fort Lauderdale, was describing the hard lot of the anti-Castro underground. "Things in the underground seem impossible," he said. Reports that most of the underground had survived the mass roundups, he said, were overly optimistic...
...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...
...moviegoers, who last saw Cantinflas as David Niven's valet in Around the World in 80 Days (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956), can now see him again in Pepe, a picture that noisily invites comparison with Mike Todd's Oscar-copping travelogue, and severely suffers by the comparison. Like Todd, Producer-Director George Sidney (Pal Joey) signed up Cantinflas and a couple of second-magnitude stars (Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) for the major parts, then went shopping for big-name bargains, bought up more than two dozen* of them (reported price: a Rolls a role), shot a scene...
...Pepe (G.S.-Posa Films; Columbia). Cantinflas, the 49-year-old son of a Mexican mail carrier, who in Charlie Chaplin's opinion has become "the world's greatest comedian," is a shy little ragamuffin with wide-apart innocent eyes like a newborn burro's, a mouth like a long, amusing sentence, and a silly little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions...
What's more, while Todd's picture had a clear, suspenseful story by Jules Verne, Pepe has only an oft-told Hollywood tale that was never worth telling in the first place. Plot: Hollywood has-been (Dailey) can't find money or nerve to make picture. Loyal stooge (Cantinflas) wins money at Las Vegas. Heroine (Jones) supplies nerve. Picture is hit. Boy gets girl. Cantinflas gets horse-a pretty white stallion, which turns in the second-best performance in the picture. Cantinflas turns in the best...