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Amor de la calle
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Wikipedia article
'Amor de la calle' ('Love Street') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortazar and starring Meche Barba and Fernando Fernndez.
Plot
'El Pichi' (Freddy Fernndez) and other street children collect a ticket that has fallen from Fernando 'El Calavera' (Fernando Fernndez), which prevents stop them and offers them a job in his place of tortas in the neighborhood of La Lagunilla Market in Mexico City. Fernando knows Queta (Meche Barba), the sister of 'El Pichi', and both are attracted. This will lead to Fernando namely the hardness of life of people in the suburbs. Queta have to fight against the fate, which forces her to work in a cabaret with the nickname of 'Cario'.
Cast
* Meche Barba as Queta / Cario
* Fernando Fernndez as Fernando 'El Calavera'
* Freddy Fernndez) as El Pichi
* Esther Luqun as Mona
* Los Panchos
* Toa la Negra
Reviews
With great images of American cinematographer Jack Draper, Manuel Esperon songs and musical interventions of Los Panchos and Tona la Negra, Meche Barba gets a great job on 'Amor de la calle', with Fernando Fernndez to restart a long period as her film partner. The success of the film, led to a sequel filmed the same year: 'Si fuera una cualquiera' ('If I Were a Any'), also directed by Cortzar.
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