María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.
Acting
José Luis López Vázquez sweating through repression—comedy gold.
Costume
1972 Madrid hostess glamour meets village Sunday best.
Director
José María Forqué
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during late Franco era, this was dangerously cheeky—censorship let it slide because the 'sinners' were punished, or were they?
Carmen Sevilla was Spain's biggest musical star; casting her as a 'fallen woman' who wins was deliberate provocation.
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