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Smoke in the Eyes
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Wikipedia article
'Humo en los ojos' ('Smoke in the Eyes') is a Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout. It was released in 1946 and starring Meche Barba and David Silva.
The film is in the public domain in both Mexico and the United States.
Plot
Maria Esther (Meche Barba) is a young girl that works as a dancer in a cabaret. Mara Esther falls in love with Carlos (David Silva), a sailor who had a previous relationship with a cabaret woman named Sofia (Mara Luisa Zea). A rivalry erupts between the two women. Neither of the two realizes that, in reality, they are mother and daughter.
Cast
* Meche Barba ... 'Mara Esther'
* David Silva ... 'Carlos'
* Mara Luisa Zea ... 'Sofa'
* Rubn Rojo ... 'Juan Manuel'
* Fernando Soto "Mantequilla" ... 'Chon'
* Toa la Negra ... 'Toa'
Reviews
The plot was inspired by the same named song of Agustn Lara, who brought other tropical themes along with Juan Bruno Tarraza and Rafael Hernndez Marn. One of the classic films of the Rumberas film is 'Humo en los ojos'. In his essential and delicious 'Documentary History of Mexican cinema', the researcher Emilio Garca Riera writes the following comment: 'It's funny the outcome of this tropical melodrama. David Silva feels incestuous by simple solidarity with her former lover Maria Luisa Zea and that makes him give up of a Meche Barba more "femme fatal" than ever. In the microcosm of the tropical cabaret, the director Alberto Gout discovered how the passions tragically collide with the revelations of kinship. At the same time, Gout was finding, for him and for the genre of Rumberas, the style that would give prosperity in the coming years'.[http://humo-en-los-ojos.peliculaspepito.com/ 'Pelculas Pepito: Humo en los ojos (1946)']
The film was originally offered to the Cuban-Mexican rumbera Mara Antonieta Pons. As the producer(s) and Pons did not reach a salary agreement, the producer Alfonso Rosas Priego and the director Alberto Gout began to test several other candidates. Among them were Lupita Torrentera, Yadira Jimenez and Ethel Maklen, but eventually Meche Barba was chosen. Thanks to this film, Barba makes her foray into Rumbera films.
References
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