Runtime: 100 min
Average vote: 6
Release date: 1950-04-06
Director: Alejandro Galindo
Writer: Alejandro Galindo
Writer: Gunther Gerszo
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
Víctor Parra
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Paco Mendiola
Leticia Palma
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Lucrecia
Tito Junco
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Máximo
José Pulido
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Antonio Gil
Manuel Dondé
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El Lagarto
Conchita Genti...
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Doña Trini
Salvador Quiroz
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El general
Sara Montes
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Novia de Anton...
José Elías Mor...
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Comandante Can...
Bruno Márquez
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Don Romulo
Manuel de la V...
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Domínguez, age...
Ángel Infante
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Manejador de c...
Jorge Martínez...
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Don Nacho