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The Black Crown (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Black Crown' (French: 'La Couronne noire', Spanish: 'La corona negra') is a 1951 French-Spanish film noir directed by Luis Saslavsky and starring Mara Flix, Rossano Brazzi and Vittorio Gassman.Tomkins & Foster p.97 It is based on the story 'La Vnus d'Ille' by Prosper Mrime.
Synopsis
In the city of Tangier, a woman named Mara (Mara Flix) suffers from amnesia after murdering her husband, who was about to demand a divorce for having caught her in illicit love affairs with a lover (Vittorio Gassman), who only loves her. interested in finding the place where some precious jewels are hidden. Disoriented, the woman runs away from her and finds the help of Andrs, who falls in love with her and tries to get her memory back. Although her patron saint sees in the tarot cards that a black crown that portends death revolves around the mysterious woman, Andrs ignores her and goes with her to the hotel where the clues indicate that he was staying with her. Mara is kidnapped by her former lover and locked in a gym on her property, but being amnesiac she can't tell him where she hid her husband's jewelry.
Cast
* Mara Flix as Mara Russell
* Rossano Brazzi as Andrs
* Vittorio Gassman as Mauricio
* Jos Mara Lado as Sr. Russel
* Antonia Plana as Seora Russel
* Avelino Santana
* Julia Caba Alba as Flora
* Manuel Arb as Orlando
* Antonia Herrero
* Flix Fernndez as El jardinero
* Concha Lpez Silva
* Casimiro Hurtado as El conde Ludovico
* Carmen Moreno
* Francisco Pierr as Po
* Dayna
* Santiago Rivero as Don Enrique
* Mara Caete as Ana
* Mariano Alcn
* Mara Francs as Mara
* Domingo Rivas as Abogado de Mauricio
* Diana Salcedo
* Piral as Pablo, the dwarf
* Arturo Bragaglia
References
Bibliography
* Cynthia Tompkins & David William Foster. Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary'. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.
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