José is fired by a sugar mill owner for being a strike ringleader. Now unemployed, he moves away instead of marrying Rita (Ninón Sevilla) as originally planned… The daughter of a poor fisherman, she falls into the clutches of a succession of dodgy men, including a corrupt politician who sets her up as a dancer. When Julio Bracho (Another Dawn; Crepúsculo) failed to get financing for his script about the corrupt state of the Mexican hinterland, Rumbera icon Ninón Sevilla took on the project, worked with him on the material and brought cinematography superstar Gabriel Figueroa on board. The result is one of the greatest musical melodramas of the 1950s, boldly stylized and empassioned.
DCP Courtesy of Janus Films
Julio Bracho
Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Andrea Palma, Carlos López Moctezum
Mexico
1954
In Spanish with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Pedro Calderón, Guillermo Calderón
Screenwriter
Julio Bracho, José Carbo
Cinematography
Gabriel Figueroa
Editor
Gloria Schoemann
Original Music
Antonio Díaz Conde, Manuel Esperón
Production Design
Jesús Bracho
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