We don't post for while nothing about Old Classic Portuguese Cinema so here it is a small post about it!
"O Pai Tirano" (The Tyrant Father) is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro.
It is one the best known comedies of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, still popular six decades after its release.
"O Pai Tirano" (The Tyrant Father) is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro.
It is one the best known comedies of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, still popular six decades after its release.
Plot
Francisco Mega (Ribeirinho), a clerk at the then leading department stores of Lisbon, "Grandes Armazéns do Grandella", is in love with Tatão (Leonor Maia), who works in front at a perfumery - "Perfumaria da Moda". Tatão, however, is a cinephile who largely ignores him, whereas Francisco is also an amateur theatre player; so his amateur theater company, the Grandellinhas, uses its rehearsals of the play "O Pai Tirano" to present Francisco as a son who split from his tyrant father for love, and woo Tatão.
Staring actors:
- Francisco Ribeiro : Francisco 'Chico' Mega
- Leonor Maia : Tatão
- Arthur Duarte : Artur de Castro
- Vasco Santana : Mestre José Santana
- Barro Lopes : Lopes
- Graça Maria : Gracinha
"O Pai Tirano" offered a number of situations that became common reference in Portuguese culture.
Among them, a scene almost at the end of the movie, where one of the members of the theatre company, middle-aged Mr. Machado (a caricature of
the don't-bother-couldn't-care-less Portuguese) takes his new
girlfriend to dinner at the theatre buffet. To each request the lady
makes, the item is unavailable, so they asks what she wants, and they
repeatedly request "two glasses of white wine."This line has since been used in adds for a Portuguese spirit.
Here is a sample of the movie (there is no subtitles in English)
