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The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks' (Spanish:'La Torre de los Siete Jorobados') is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville.Mira p.225 It is based on a novel of the same title by Emilio Carrere.
Plot
Basilio is a superstitious young man who courts the singer .
Looking for money to invite her and her mother, he gambles.
He wins a small fortune following the advice of Robinsn de Mantua.
He is revealed to be the ghost of an archeologist dead after an apparent suicide.
Basilio is attracted to Ins, who happens to be the niece of professor Mantua.
She refuses the verdict of suicide and asks for his help.
Basilio is helped by his friend, a police agent.
They discover a passage from Mantua's home into an underground city under Habsburg Madrid, founded by Jews escaping their 1492 expulsion and now inhabited by money-forging hunchbacks led by Dr. Sabatino.
The hunchbacks hold Ins and an archeologist friend of Mantua and try to force Basilio into staying.
Basilio manages to escape and returns with the police to find Ins at her home, who barely remembers what happened.
The police chief wants to arrest Basilio but Ins intercedes.
Meanwhile, Sabatino has blown down the tunnels.
Themes
The film features antisemitic tropes as core element of the plot, namely the appearance of a subterranean city dwelled by nefarious hunchbacks, founded by Jews back in 1492.
The idea that the hunchbacks are the descendants of the Jews is not explicit, though.
Cast
*Antonio Casal as Basilio Beltrn
*Isabel de Poms as Ins
*Guillermo Marn as Doctor Sabatino
*Flix de Poms as Don Robinson de Mantua
*Julia Lajos as Madre de la 'Bella Medusa'
*Julia Pachelo as Braulia
*Manolita Morn as La 'Bella Medusa'
*Antonio Riquelme as Don Zacaras
*Jos Franco as Espectro de Napolen
*Manuel Miranda
*Emilio Barta
*Antonio L. Estrada
*Luis Ballester
*Luis Latorre
*Rosario Royo
*Julin Garca
*Francisco Zabala
*Natalia Daina
*Carmen Garca
*Jos Arias
*Antonio Zaballos
References
Bibliography
* Mira, Alberto. 'The A to Z of Spanish Cinema'. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
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