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La reina del mambo

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Wikipedia article




'La reina del mambo' ('The Queen of the Mambo'), also known as 'Sin t' ('Without You') is a 1951 Mexican drama film. It stars Mara Antonieta Pons and Sara Garca.

Plot



Consuelo (Mara Antonieta Pons), infatuated with the scoundrel Victor (Eduardo Noriega), breaks up with her boyfriend Luis (Gustavo Rojo), an attorney. Consuelo's father Balderas, a judge, warns her against Victor. Victor drugs and seduces the young girl and takes her to Ciudad Juarez, where she is sexually assaulted. Consuelo, on the advice of her friend 'La Nortea', escapes to Mexico City and finds success as a cabaret dancer. She became known as 'Carmen La Tirana' ('Carmen the tyrant') for the harshness with which she treats men. Victor comes looking for her and conflicts develop in the plot. The girl is unfairly sent to prison, where she is helped by a friendly old drunk woman (Sara Garca), who turns out in reality to be a very rich woman.

Cast



* Mara Antonieta Pons ... 'Consuelo / Carmen La Tirana'

* Sara Garca ... 'Ta'

* Gustavo Rojo ... 'Luis'

* Eduardo Noriega ... 'Victor'

* Jos Baviera

* Roberto Cobo

Reviews



The communicating vessels of the film melodrama are infinite: The director, Ramn Pereda baptized to the rumbera heroine with a Spanish nickname; and the maternal protection of Sara Garca, who in other melodramas has proved to be a fierce advocate of the virtue. But Sara Garca was not a sweet grandmother as usual; instead she plays a drunkard, perhaps on the inspiration of Libertad Lamarque in the film 'La Marquesa del barrio'. Of course, Damaso Perez Prado contributed music to this film: the mambo 'El ruletero'.

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