Immediate Delivery

1963 film by Miguel M. Delgado

Immediate Delivery

Directed by| Miguel M. Delgado
Screenplay by| Miguel M. Delgado (writer)
Carlos León (additional dialogue)
Jaime Salvador (adaptation and screenplay)
Produced by| Jacques Gelman
Starring| Cantinflas
Gina Romand
Claudio Brook
Fanny Cano
Cinematography| Gabriel Figueroa
Edited by| Jorge Bustos
Music by| Gustavo César Carrión

Production
company

Posa Films

Distributed by| Columbia Pictures

Release date

* 25 December 1963 (1963-12-25) (Mexico)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Country| Mexico
Language| Spanish

Immediate Delivery (Spanish: Entrega inmediata), originally known as Agente XU 777 (English: Agent XU 777) is a 1963 Mexican spy comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Gina Romand, Claudio Brook and Fanny Cano.[1] In the film, Cantinflas plays a simple mailman forced to become an international spy.[2] It was the last black and white film made by Cantinflas, although he had already made six color films at the time.

## Plot

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Feliciano (Cantinflas) is a mailman who is recruited by a secret counterintelligence service (which codenames him Agent XU-777), and must discover an international conspiracy.

He manages to find out that enemy agents, led by Carlota (Gina Romand) and Alex (Claudio Brook), will smuggle a teacher to decipher keys through a coffin. Feliciano is put in charge of the funeral home, but he ends up delivering the coffin to a wrong person, distracting the loyal agents and allowing the enemy to achieve their goal. However, the enemy agents discover that for the deciphering process they also must obtain a specific code.

In a parallel storyline, Feliciano learns that an old compadre of his arranged for his daughter to go live with Feliciano after his death. Due to a letter from his compadre where he describes his daughter as his "bebé" ("baby"), Feliciano assumes that his compadre’s daughter is an infant, even buying a crib and milk for the impending arrival. However, much to his surprise, he ends up discovering that his compadre’s daughter is actually a young woman nicknamed "Bebé" (Fanny Cano), and they end developing a romantic relationship. The enemy agents then kidnap Bebé to force Feliciano to betray his homeland and give the code to the enemy.

## Cast

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* Cantinflas as Feliciano / Agent XU 777
* Gina Romand as Carlota
* Claudio Brook as Alex
* Fanny Cano as Bebé
* Guillermo Zetina as Head of Counterintelligence
* María Amelia Ramírez as Agent 30-30 (as María Amelia Ramírez "Miss Argentina")
* Emma Roldán as Doña Angustias
* Quintín Bulnes as Agent
* María Herrero
* André Toffel
* Maricarmen Vela as Mercedes
* Xavier Massé
* Guillermo Rivas as Spy (as Guillermo Rivas "El Borras")
* Jorge Russek as Spy
* Armando Gutiérrez
* José Wilhelmy
* Adolfo Aguilar
* Alberto Catalá as Professor
* Ángel Merino
* Jorge Mondragón as Funeral Home Client
* Manuel Zozaya
* Francisco Reiguera as Odilón Campos Santos
* Ramón Valdés as Original Agent XU 777
* Julián de Meriche as Waiter (as Julién de Meriche)
* Rafael de Córdoba as Dancer
* Carlos León as Agent
* Hermanos Fernández

## References

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1. ^ Agrasánchez, p. 212
2. ^ Pilcher, p. 191

## Bibliography

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* Agrasánchez, Rogelio. Beauties of Mexican Cinema. Agrasanchez Film Archive, 2001.
* Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

## External links

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* Immediate Delivery at IMDb