IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023902/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDB rating: 7,8
Directors: Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando de Fuentes
Main Cast: Alfredo del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto
"El Compadre Mendoza is a story of the effect of the Mexican revolution on the privileged class. What at first might seem to be a simple story of betrayal becomes a lament for human values abandoned in the tension of wartime, where revolutionary ideals always lose.
Director Fernando de Fuentes' simple shooting style cleverly sets up the complex contradictions within Rosalío Mendoza, superbly played by Alfredo del Diestro. The outwardly confident landowner must sleep with a six-gun hanging on the bedpost. He never knows if a knock at the door will be a visit by midnight executioners, so he's certainly not a coward. The acting and staging is natural and unforced.
Lolita is played by the quietly sensual Carmen Guerrero, best known in America as 'Lucia' in the Spanish-language version of Dracula.
Fernando de Fuentes and writer Juan Bustillo de Oro made a number of classic Mexican films of the 1930s, including some little-seen horror tales of high repute, El fantasma del convento (The Phantom of the Convent) and Dos Monjes (Two Monks)."
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