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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   459 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Luis Alcoriza (writer)
Luis Buñuel (writer)
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Release Date:
5 February 1953 (Mexico) more
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Plot:
A tough, tall and strong young man helps to an evil old man to kick out a poor people from their houses, but he'll fall in love of a girl who lives with her father in the building about to be demolish. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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for Bunuel fans and non Bunuel fans more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Pedro Armendáriz ... Pedro
Katy Jurado ... Paloma
Rosa Arenas ... Meche
Andrés Soler ... Andrés Cabrera
Roberto Meyer ... Carmelo González
Beatriz Ramos ... Doña Marta
Paco Martínez ... Don Pepe
Gloria Mestre ... María
Paz Villegas ... María's mother
José Muñoz ... Lencho Ruíz
Diana Ochoa ... Lencho's wife
Ignacio Villalbazo ... María's brother
Jaime Fernández ... Julián García
Raquel García ... Doña Enriqueta
Lupe Carriles ... Maid
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Brute
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Runtime:
USA:81 min
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Language:
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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for Bunuel fans and non Bunuel fans, 1 September 2008
7/10
Author: christopher-underwood from Greenwich - London

Minor Bunuel maybe but what a tough little film and featuring the most steamy performance from the stand out Katy Jurado, already well into a film career that would last for almost another 50 years. Fantastic b/w photography and amazing control of crowded action sequences. Not much of the wily old surrealist on view here but he certainly turns in the most dramatic, violent and sexy of films that must have made much of the rest of Mexican cinema look a little stale. It would still be a few years before the director could get back into full stride but this this film must have ensured that he would be able to continue making films, even if temporarily, it was still to be in Mexico. So this is a fine piece of cinema for Bunuel fans and non Bunuel fans and incredible that it should have been so difficult to see for so many years.

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