Wild Flower (film)
- 1943 (1943)
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]
Plot
In 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
- Dolores del Río .... Esperanza
- Pedro Armendáriz .... José Luis Castro
- Emilio Fernández .... Rogelio Torres
- Miguel Ángel Ferriz .... don Francisco
- Armando Soto La Marina "Chicote" .... Reynaldo
- Agustín Isunza .... Nicanor
- Eduardo Arozamena .... Melchor
- Mimí Derba .... doña Clara
- Margarita Cortés .... sister of José Luis
- Manuel Dondé .... Úrsulo Torres
- José Elías Moreno .... colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
- Lucha Reyes
- Trío Calaveras
- Pedro Galindo .... Pedro
- Carlos Riquelme .... Cura
- Tito Novaro .... son of Esperanza
- Emilia Guiú .... an extra
References
Bibliography
- Segre, Erica. Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links
- Wild Flower at IMDb
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