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Nosotros Los Pobres

starring: Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz 'Chachita', Carmen Montejo, Blanca Estela Pavón, Miguel Inclán
directed by: Ismael Rodríguez

Release Date April 10, 2007
Nosotros Los Pobres(1947, We The Poor)is a classic from director Ismael Rodriguez. Pepe El Toro(Pedro Infante)is framed for murder and thrown in jail! Pepe's "daughter" Chachita(Evita Munoz)and his paralytic mother have to try and survive without him. NLP is corny and soap opera-ish at times, but it's engaging, filled with colorful characters, and it has some heart and soul. I am amazed at how Rodriguez got some gruesome violence past the censors(Don Pilar brutally attacks Pepe's defenseless mother, a man gets stabbed in the eye, etc). The first time I saw Evita Munoz, she played a greedy, obese, fat woman in a funny, side-splitting India Maria movie from the 1980's. In NLP, she looked so cute and adorable as a child. She also did a good job ... Read More:

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Soy un Profugo

starring: Cantinflas, Emilia Guiú, Daniel 'Chino' Herrera, Agustín Isunza, Rafael Alcayde
directed by: Miguel M. Delgado

Release Date May 04, 2004
Nosotros Los Pobres(1947, We The Poor)is a classic from director Ismael Rodriguez. Pepe El Toro(Pedro Infante)is framed for murder and thrown in jail! Pepe's "daughter" Chachita(Evita Munoz)and his paralytic mother have to try and survive without him. NLP is corny and soap opera-ish at times, but it's engaging, filled with colorful characters, and it has some heart and soul. I am amazed at how Rodriguez got some gruesome violence past the censors(Don Pilar brutally attacks Pepe's defenseless mother, a man gets stabbed in the eye, etc). The first time I saw Evita Munoz, she played a greedy, obese, fat woman in a funny, side-splitting India Maria movie from the 1980's. In NLP, she looked so cute and adorable as a child. She also did a good job ... Read More:

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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos

starring: Rafael Alcayde, Arturo de Córdova, Lorraine Chanel, María Félix, Carlos Riquelme
directed by: Julio Bracho

Release Date March 23, 2004
Although, stereotypes can be dangerous and misleading, this film carries a wonderful set of scenarios that show episodes from an era when Mexico was considered only a rural, narrow minded, simplistic, humorous, and easy to handle society, which it is not longer true. Films like this, created a generic view of Mexico that influenced many and presented a local urban window of a country not every one knew. The magnificent ideas of collecting traditional tales from Mexico by the well known author B. Traven in 1956, brought to light a set of stories in black and white that match perfectly the period during the fifties when Mexico was passing the golden era in film. This is a film that contains heroines and heroes, and at the same time, it shows a variety ... Read More: