Se los chupó la bruja ("The Witch Suckled Them") is a 1958 Mexican horror comedy film, produced and written by Pedro Galindo, directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Viruta and Capulina and Sonia Furió.
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Plot
Viruta and Capulina are two brothers who are trying to invent a system in which water works as a substitute for gas for vehicles. Don Caritino, their landlord, has tried to get their fourteen-month due rent. Viruta and Capulina refuse to pay their due rent, so Don Caritino proposes them to convince their goddaughter Gloria to date him. In return, he will let them forget about the rent.
Viruta and Capulina are surprised when they are told they have inherited, along with their cousin Reynaldo, their great uncle's monetary estate and mansion in "El callejón de las ánimas". There is a hidden treasure in the mansion that their great uncle tried to find. The mansion's butler and his wife, are urgingly tying to find the treasure. The couple scares Viruta, Capulina, Gloria, and Reynaldo out of the mansion, so that their plan they can go on with their searching.
Their luck turns around when Reynaldo calls the sheriff to arrest the butler and his wife. Viruta and Capulina show their water energy invention to the sheriff in the butler's car, but the butler had poured gasoline into the gas compartment a few moments before. So Capulina lights a match and pours it in, and an explosion occurs.
The explosion cracked a column where the treasure was hidden, Viruta and Capulina found the treasure and gives some to the sheriff. Reynaldo's greatest treasure is Gloria (Viruta and Capulina's goddaughter), who has developed a romantic relationship with him.
Cast
Marco Antonio Campos as Viruta
Gaspar Henaine as Capulina
Sonia Furió as Gloria
Octávio Arias as Reynaldo
Yerye Beirute as the Superintendent
José Jasso "El Ojón" as the Butler
Armando Arriola as don Caritino
Lupe Carriles as the Housekeeper
Felipe de Flores as Policeman
Armando Espinosa as Policeman
Mario García "Harapos" as the Superintendent's secretary
Elia Mendéz as Gloria's personal assistant
Los Tres Caballeros as the musical trio of the Cisne Negro club
Alberto Catalá as Lawyer Bermejo (uncredited)
Reception
Production started and ended in 1957, and the film premiered in the Palacio Chino movie theater on February 26, 1958.
DVD release and restoration
Under the production of Tekila Films, the film was digitally remastered in sound and picture quality for exclusive release in DVD in 2008. Se los chupó la bruja was released in an eight-film four-disc pack entitled, "8 Exitasos de la Comedia". It was also released by itself in a one-disc DVD.