Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9

Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9 follows two married women who grow suspicious when their husbands repeatedly claim overtime but vanish each night between seven and nine. What starts as idle worry turns into rumor, neighborhood gossip and amateur surveillance as the wives swap stories and test hypotheses. The film favors light comedy over hard drama, using misunderstandings, overheard snippets and comic confrontations to push the plot forward. Neighbors stage small stakeouts and the women try amateur sleuthing, creating humorous confrontations and scenes of mistaken identity.

Released in 1946, the film was directed by Fernando Cortés and features Mapy Cortés, José Cibrián, Blanca de Castejón and Andrés Soler, drawing on popular domestic comedy styles of the era, with a supporting cast prominent in the period's cinema.

Box office records for many midcentury Mexican films are limited, and reliable grosses for this title aren't available, so its commercial reach today is described as modest and largely undocumented, contemporary reports don't provide clear totals, and archives are sparse.

The movie echoes social attitudes toward marriage and leisure in 1940s Spanish language cinema, using nighttime trysts as a comic premise. It helped showcase Mapy Cortés and Andrés Soler in light roles that audiences of the time enjoyed. It interests scholars of gender and popular culture in early Mexican cinema.

Modern critical attention is limited, with a small sample giving it a 5.0/10 rating, reflecting mixed views. The film leans on themes of trust, marital expectation and social reputation, and it favors humor over intense moral judgment. Viewers may appreciate its period comedy rhythms and social commentary on marital appearance.