El analfabeto

The Illiterate One (Spanish: El analfabeto) is a 1961 Mexican comedy film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas, Lilia Prado, and Sara García. It is the second Cantinflas film presented by Columbia Pictures. Plot An inheritance attorney sends a letter to Inocencio Prieto y Calvo telling him that he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos, which he has only to claim by producing his baptismal certificate as proof of identity. However, as an illiterate, Inocencio has no idea of the contents of the letter, even telling his godmother, whom he lives with that it's perhaps someone who wants to borrow money. While waiting for the local druggist to wait on him so he can have the letter read to him, Inocencio is embarrassed to see that a customer's young daughter is able to read while he, a grown man, cannot. He leaves without telling the druggist his problem, resolved to go to school and to wait to learn the letter's contents until he can read them for himself, so that never again will he have to share private matters with others because of his own ignorance. Inspired by this, he registers at his local kindergarten school amidst the mocks of the children. He stops by the local bank to ask for a job, having quit his previous employment that morning. Leaving the bank, he meets Blanca, an attractive young woman newly arrived in town, and shows her the way to her new place of employment, partly to avoid admitting he cannot read the written address. The daughter of Blanca's employer is entertaining her fiancé, Aníbal, who finds Blanca appealing and begins to make advances on her almost immediately. These advances are spurned each time; the final time, Aníbal warns her she will regret her refusals. Over the course of the film, Inocencio gradually learns to read, courts Blanca, teaches his friends and makes both friends and enemies at the bank. Fermín, a teller, taunts and mistreats Inocencio thinking him inferior. Later Inocencio foils a robbery; Fermín plays a prank on Inocencio by writing a letter pretending that it requests a reward for the deed but actually is demanding for Inocencio to be punished for letting he robbers in. The prank backfires when Don Rómulo, the bank manager, discovers the ruse and reduces Fermín's wages in half.