Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.[1] It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in silent and Hollywood's Golden Age films. It is the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).[2]
| Wild Flower | |
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| Directed by | Emilio Fernández |
| Written by | Emilio Fernández Mauricio Magdaleno |
| Produced by | Agustin J. Fink |
| Starring | Dolores del Río Pedro Armendáriz Miguel Ángel Ferriz Fernando Soto LaMarina Mimí Derba |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | Jorge Bustos |
| Music by | Francisco Domínguez |
| Distributed by | Films Mundiales |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Plot
editIn a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.
Cast
edit- Dolores del Río as Esperanza
- Pedro Armendáriz as José Luis Castro
- Emilio Fernández as Rogelio Torres
- Miguel Ángel Ferriz as don Francisco
- Armando Soto La Marina as Reynaldo
- Agustín Isunza as Nicanor
- Eduardo Arozamena as Melchor
- Mimí Derba as doña Clara
- Margarita Cortés as sister of José Luis
- Manuel Dondé as Úrsulo Torres
- José Elías Moreno as colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
- Lucha Reyes
- Trío Calaveras
- Pedro Galindo as Pedro
- Carlos Riquelme as Cura
- Tito Novaro as son of Esperanza
- Emilia Guiú as an extra
References
edit- ^ Segre p.97
- ^ Baugh, Scott L. (2012). Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends. ABC-CLIO. p. 313. ISBN 978-031-3380-365.
Bibliography
edit- Segre, Erica. Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links
edit- Wild Flower at IMDb
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