Paco l’infaillible (1979)

Paco l’infaillible is a French-Spanish film comedy-drama first released in 1979, directed by Didier Haudepin.  The film is based on a novel by Andrés Laszlo and stars Alfredo Landa, Patrick Dewaere, Christine Pascal, Jean Bouise and Eduardo Calvo.  It has also been released under the title: Paco the Infallible.  Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.


In Madrid during the 1920s, many women find employment as nurses for bourgeois families.  To provide milk for the offspring of their wealthy employers, these women must themselves give birth, and for this they call upon the services of Paco, a remarkably fertile young man.  Once he has performed the task required of him and taken his modest payment, Paco goes on his way, refusing to have anything to do with the countless babes he has fathered.  All is well until a young doctor, Don Manuel, begins to provide the same service for free...

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