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Wild Flower (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Wild Flower' (Spanish: 'Flor silvestre') is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernndez and starring Dolores del Ro and Pedro Armendriz.Segre p.97 It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Ro after her career in Silent and Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernndez-Del Rio-Armendriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Gui in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Plot
In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, Jos 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
and Pedro Armendriz in a publicity photograph for the film
* Dolores del Ro .... Esperanza
* Pedro Armendriz .... Jos Luis Castro
* Emilio Fernndez .... Rogelio Torres
* Miguel ngel Ferriz .... don Francisco
* Armando Soto La Marina "Chicote" .... Reynaldo
* Agustn Isunza .... Nicanor
* Eduardo Arozamena .... Melchor
* Mim Derba .... doa Clara
* Margarita Corts .... sister of Jos Luis
* Manuel Dond .... rsulo Torres
* Jos Elas Moreno .... colonel Pnfilo Rodrguez, Esperanza
* Lucha Reyes
* Tro Calaveras
* Pedro Galindo .... Pedro
* Carlos Riquelme .... Cura
* Tito Novaro .... son of Esperanza
* Emilia Gui .... an extra
References
Bibliography
* Segre, Erica. 'Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture'. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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