Corner Stop!

¡Esquina, bajan…!
Alejandro Galindo

This musical-inflected pro-labor union comedy from Alejandro Galindo—a pioneering chronicler of the travails of workaday Mexicans—charts the chaos that erupts when a bus driver and his ticket-ripping coworker are suspended after deviating from their route. Starring David Silva and Fernando Soto “Mantequilla.”

DIRECTOR
Alejandro Galindo
YEAR
1948
COUNTRY
Mexico
RUNTIME
115 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
¡Esquina, bajan…!

This musical-inflected pro-labor union comedy from Alejandro Galindo—a pioneering chronicler of the travails of workaday Mexicans—charts the chaos that erupts when a bus driver (David Silva, Wetbacks) and his ticket-ripping coworker (Fernando Soto “Mantequilla,” one of the era’s most recognizable supporting comic actors) are suspended after deviating from their route for the lovely Cholita (Olga Jiménez) and subsequently caught in the crossfire of two rival transportation companies. Corner Stop! is as much a finely detailed, lovingly drawn snapshot of a rapidly growing Mexico City and the broad-toned jargon of its new urban proletariat as it is an incendiary critique of urban sprawl, workers’ rights, and the universal pains of customer service. Look out for an appearance by Marco Antonio Campos “Viruta” in his first film credit. 

Courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM’s collection.


Esta comedia musical pro-sindicalista de Alejandro Galindo—un cronista pionero de las penurias de los trabajadores mexicanos—narra el caos que se desata cuando un conductor de autobús (David Silva, Espaldas mojadas) y su compañero de trabajo (Fernando Soto “Mantequilla,” uno de los actores cómicos más reconocibles de la época) son suspendidos tras desviarse de su ruta por la encantadora Cholita (Olga Jiménez) y se encuentran atrapados en el fuego cruzado de dos empresas de transporte rivales. ¡Esquina, bajan…! es tanto un retrato detallado y amorosamente dibujado de la Ciudad de México en rápido crecimiento y del lenguaje coloquial de su nuevo proletariado urbano como una crítica incendiaria de la expansión urbana, los derechos de los trabajadores y los dolores universales del servicio al cliente. No se pierda la presencia de Marco Antonio Campos “Viruta” en su debut cinematográfico.

Cortesía del acervo de la Filmoteca de la UNAM. 

Corner Stop!
Corner Stop!
Corner Stop!

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