El pequeño coronel

1960
1h 25m

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Joselito, the only son of a Spanish noble gone to the Americas, lives peacefully with his servants and tutors in his estate near Seville. But when he ends up under the care of his ambitious ... Read allJoselito, the only son of a Spanish noble gone to the Americas, lives peacefully with his servants and tutors in his estate near Seville. But when he ends up under the care of his ambitious and ruthless uncle, he might have to fight to survive.Joselito, the only son of a Spanish noble gone to the Americas, lives peacefully with his servants and tutors in his estate near Seville. But when he ends up under the care of his ambitious and ruthless uncle, he might have to fight to survive.

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Trivia
Italian censorship visa # 36241 delivered on 13 December 1961.

Crazy credits
The credits unfold over a storybook, where a hand turns the pages, each featuring a painting of a scene that seamlessly transitions into live action.

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La banda del cucú
Lyrics by Antonio de Jaén
Music by Antonio Segovia (as Segovia)
Performed by Joselito

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Joselito and the seven thieves

Musically speaking,this flick contains what is probably Joselito's best rendering:Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" .But you've got to sit through the whole film because this wonderful rendition happens in the last minutes.He also sings a snatch of Mozart,but it's obvious he likes flamenco best.

The story ? It begins as some kind of "David Copperfield" :the wicked uncle who whips his nephew :a Spanish Mister Murdstone ;then the old governess in tears who tells the poor dear he'll be sent to a boarding-school:a Spanish Pegotty.One should also note that Joselito plays a rich noble heir,a count ,and that his late dad's brother covets his fortune .

But it quickly leaves Dickens for a mixture of "Ali Baba and the forty thieves " and "Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs".Joselito is first kidnapped by bad thieves but afterward saved by seven good brigands whose song recalls the seven dwarfs' "hi !ho! "and who live in a cave of course. Besides ,they are so dirty that Joselito insists that they have a bath in the river!and there is a grumpy one among them!

Borrowed its title from an old eponymous movie starring another wiz kid,Shirley Temple (1935).