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I Will Consult Mister Brown

1946 film by Pío Ballesteros

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24514554 ↗
Source-derived summary

I Will Consult Mister Brown (Spanish: Consultaré a Mister Brown) is a 1946 Spanish comedy film directed by Pío Ballesteros and starring Monique Thibaut, José Franco and Valeriano Andrés. It is based on the 1928 novel The Partner by the Chilean writer Jenaro Prieto. In order to stave off financial ruin, a man creates a fake business partner.

Cast

Valeriano Andrés as Anselmo García

Lola Barrea

José Franco

Guillermo Marín

Amparo Reyes

Pilar Sala

Monique Thibaut

María Jesús Valdés

Pepita C. Velázquez

References

Bibliography

Augusto M. Torres. Directores españoles malditos. Huerga Y Fierro Editores, 2004.

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The public source identifies “I Will Consult Mister Brown” as 1946 film by Pío Ballesteros. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Will, Consult and Mister.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1928, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Will, Consult and Mister providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24514554. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1928 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Will Consult Mister Brown” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.