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- This Traveltalk entry takes viewers along the Pacific International Highway, which starts in Mexico City (not seen) and proceeds west to Acapulco. We see the Spanish colonial architecture in Morelia, the famous Popocatépetl Volcano, and Acapulco's famous cliff divers and beaches.
- Donald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).
- The discovery of a perfect pearl forever changes the lives of a poor Mexican fisherman and his family.
- A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
- Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
- The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.
- Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
- To escape from an arranged marriage to Aquatania's pagan god, a desperate maiden ends up in Tarzan's fishing net. But soon, he, too, finds himself before a well-planned conspiracy. Can Tarzan save the mermaid from the barbaric idol's will?
- Features Richard E. Bishop, wildfowl photographer and artist. Also: curios and jewelry made from seashells in Acapulco; a mail-order glass eye company; Bob Kelly of Hollywood, doll/puppet clothes designer.
- A beautiful classy young lady who had lost all her money, goes to an Acapulco resort in search of a rich man to marry.
- Jean Harper, a Pomona school teacher on vacation, is taking a bus tour through Mexico. Bored, she misses the bus and soon finds herself looking at Jimmy Donovan...30 years old and six feet high, and she thinks he is better to look at than ruins 1000 years old and 900 feet high. He is a high-priced divorce lawyer, also on vacation, and bicycling his way to Acapulco to "stay out of trouble." Thus begins a tour of Mexico by bus, bicycle, ox-cart and by foot and, before they reach Acapulco, he is accused of kidnapping Jean and both become the object of a nation-wide search. They also get adopted, along the way, by a whimsical Mexican orphan boy.
- A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?
- Two mulatos, Mateo and Caridad, grow up together in a port in Havana, Cuba. Caridad is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and a black laundry-woman. As the years pass, Mateo falls in love with Caridad, but she falls in love with a Mexican captain, Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara, owner of the cantina where Caridad dances. When Martin returns to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to resolve his troubles, Guevara feels he "owns" Caridad. What will Caridad do when Martin returns? This film has great music and dancing, including a risque performance of African "bembe", in which women tear off their tops and roll around in the sand.
- Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing (or dubbed) on a recording of "Extrano Amour (Strange Love.) The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gaashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!
- In Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
- An arms dealer and a mercenary cross swords during the 1916 Mexican revolution.
- After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane (Pinal) drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci (Infante) arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
- A newly-married American couple vacationing in Mexico is prevented by the police from leaving Acapulco when the husband becomes the prime suspect in a local girl's murder.
- Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.
- The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
- The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
- An artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake.
- Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
- In the past, Tin Tan the pirate hides a treasure map so their crew can't find it. In the actual time, his descendant a ruined aristocratic finds the map but other people is also looking for it.
- It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
- A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
- Sophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.
- The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
- Mr. Carvajal, an old man who fled Mexico during the Revolution (of the 1910s), and his two young daughters, return to their native country after years living in Europe. When he left the country, his family belonged to the Higher Classes and owned huge amounts of land and properties, which were left in the care of faithful employees...but things have changed in Mexico. Upon their arrival in Mexico City, they are greeted by Arturo and his brother, whose family was close to the Carvajals'. Arturo, who used to be an active sportsman before the accident that left him an invalid, is also an immensely rich businessman and falls for Mr. Carvajal's younger daughter, the lovely Isabel; in turn his brother falls for Isabel's older sister, María Teresa. But Isabel is already in love with no-good playboy Federico de la Cadena, who is only interested in the Carvajals' fortune.....but then, there are some devastating news about the Carvajals' Estate.