Vera Cruz Studios出品的经典影片，维拉-克鲁兹是五十年代巴西最著名的电影制片公司。 Swindler in jail devises a scheme of blackmailing the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about the dead man's life. In 1953, in Sao Paulo, the small time crook Dorival (Waldemar Wey) blackmails the families of recently died persons. He looks for important names in the obituary of the newspapers, then he sends a letter asking for a large amount to the dead person, as if he were not aware that the victim had passed away. The heirs, afraid of being incriminated by the swindler, deposit the money in his bank account. Dorival decides to change his life when he meets Dora (Gilda Nery), a beautiful prisoner, but an ironic situation expects for him. 'Uma Pulga na Balanca' ('A Flea on the Scale') is a great naive comedy of a nostalgic non-violent period of Brazilian society. Last month, the Brazilian distributor Cinemagia released a box with three DVDs of the Brazilian Companhia Vera Cruz. This studio originated in 1949 in Sao Paulo, and they hired foreigner technicians, aiming at great productions instead of the common 'chanchadas'. The great name of Vera Cruz was Amácio Mazzaropi (1912-1981). Unfortunately, the lack of a viable scheme of distribution was considered the major cause of the failure of Vera Cruz. The DVD 'Uma Pulga na Balanca' is not restored, but it is mandatory in any movie collection.