Gerardo Reyes

A musical variety show on television featuring a somewhat chubby singer of Mexican ranchera numbers is suddenly interrupted by a strange masked criminal named Magnus, who announces he is about to present the kidnapping of a famous actress, live on television. Reality or fiction? It is the latter, but with a dash of the former since the singer, Gerardo Reyes, is actually playing himself, although not quite. Beginning his professional career sometime after the end of the second World War as a restaurant singer in his native Mexico, Reyes has become something of a father figure o...