Mexico's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival was the Color-Cinemascope star vehicle Tizos. The ever-popular Maria Felix stars as a white woman who enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian, played by singing star Pedro Infante (who died shortly after the film's completion). The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be ...
Una Carta de Amor (Love Letters) is an overlong, but never dull, Mexican romantic yarn. Set in the 19th century, the film is told in flashback from the point-of-view of condemned prisoner Jorge Negrete. Facing execution for "crimes" against the repressive government, Negrete recalls happier times with his late wife Gloria Marin. He remembers how ...
Director Fernando de Fuentes and star Maria Felix, the creative team responsible for the 1943 box-office hit Dona Barbera, once more combined their talents for La Mujer sin Alma (Woman without a Soul) Felix is cast as Tersa, a lowborn sewing machine girl with high-society aspirations. Hoping to escape her shabby environment, Tersa marries the ...
A Bunuel melodrama about a man conned into harassing tenants that his boss wants evicted. Other complications along the line are his seduction by the boss's mistress and his falling in love with a girl whose father he has accidentally murdered. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez' second directorial effort was the thrill-a-minute Soy Puro Mexicano (I'm a Mexican Too) Pedro Armendariz stars as a fugitive bandit chieftain whose long-dormant patriotism is aroused when Mexico enters WWII. Hiding from the authorities in a fancy hacienda, Armendariz discovers that the place is a beehive of Nazi ...
This is a well-made religious film on the miraculous appearances of the Virgin of Guadelupe to a converted Aztec, Juan Diego, in 1531. The Aztecs had a temple constructed to the Earth Mother, Tonantzin on Tepeyac Hill when the Spaniards razed it to the ground as a part of their campaign to destroy the native religion. Six years after ...
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La Escandida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela ...
The comedy Las Aventuras de Pito Perez stars Tin-Tan as Mexican folk hero Pito Perez. Author Jose Ruben Romero created a very popular series of books about the character in which Romero focused on how Perez symbolizes the best aspects of everyday people in Mexico. This movie is an adaptation of the book of the same name. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie ...
A tenacious beauty named Aurora (Maria Felix) seduces the municipal authorities so that she can purchase the estate of missing local Ricardo Alfaro (Jorge Negrete), only to find her elaborate ruse complicated when Ricardo eventually returns home. Incensed that his house was sold without his permission, Ricardo argues his case before the ...
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