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The Kid From Spain

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After sneaking into the girls' dorm, college roommates Eddie (Eddie Cantor) and Ricardo (Robert Young) are expelled. Owing to mistaken identity, Eddie is then whisked away to Mexico by a group of bank robbers, and reconnects with Ricardo at the border. To get him off the hook with a meddlesome detective (Robert Emmett O'Connor), Ricardo claims that Eddie is a famous Spanish matador, Don Sebastian -- but the detective won't believe it until he sees Eddie in the ring.

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Critics Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 06/23/2008
C-
The film is short on plot and doesn't have enough musical numbers to recover from the pathetic comedy routines. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/03/2005
3/5
Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan 01/02/2005
5/5
Vintage zany musical is Eddie Cantor showcase. Go to Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) 05/30/2004
5/5
Possibly Cantor's best film. Certainly his most creatively directed and raciest. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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michael d @RT16138633 12/14/2021 Eddie Cantor's talent is for those of a unique taste, but this extravagant production has blatant routines for the Goldwyn Girls. The plot has Cantor and his college buddy innocently caught up in a bank robbery and hiding out in Mexico where Cantor is mistaken for a famous matador. See more 06/03/2015 Eddie Cantor fights a bull and sings "What a Perfect Combination" in this funny Goldwyn musical with Busby Berkeley production numbers. See more 04/02/2015 another winner from gr8 director leo mcCarey See more 04/02/2009 I wish more people had heard of this film. While technically crude (it was a very early talkie), For me it's funnier and smarter then the classic screwball comedies to come later on in the decade. I Caught it by accident on the box one night and it had me in absolute stitches from start to finish. Eddie Cantor is obviously like any funnyman going to be a acquired taste, But for me this is one of the funniest film's ever made, with more classic gags and situations per minute than todays so-called- comedy film's. Dated but under-rated, give it a go. See more Read all reviews
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Leo McCarey

Director

Eddie Cantor

Eddie Williams

Lyda Roberti

Rosalie

Robert Young

Ricardo

Ruth Hall

Anita Gomez

John Miljan

Pancho
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Synopsis After sneaking into the girls' dorm, college roommates Eddie (Eddie Cantor) and Ricardo (Robert Young) are expelled. Owing to mistaken identity, Eddie is then whisked away to Mexico by a group of bank robbers, and reconnects with Ricardo at the border. To get him off the hook with a meddlesome detective (Robert Emmett O'Connor), Ricardo claims that Eddie is a famous Spanish matador, Don Sebastian -- but the detective won't believe it until he sees Eddie in the ring.
Director
Leo McCarey
Producer
Samuel Goldwyn
Screenwriter
Wm. Anthony McGuire, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Genre
Musical, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 17, 1932, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 23, 2020
Runtime
1h 36m