El Suavecito
Fiction | Mexico | 1950 | 89 min | Spanish
Synopsis
Premiere date and place: Palacio Chino in Mexico City, August 3, 1951.Playboy Roberto "El Suavecito" has a relationship with the worker Lupita, but he is constantly unfaithful. One night in a dance hall, El Suavecito fights with Carlos, a taxi driver. After making amends, El Suavecito invites Carlos to the gambling room of "El Nene", a dangerous gangster. A crime is committed in the place and Carlos is wrongly accused. El Suavecito sells his silence to El Nene out of cowardice, but remorse will not allow him to keep his promise for long.Version restored by the UNAM Cinematheque in 2019.
Director
He is considered one of the most gifted Mexican directors in the exercise of cinematographic genres. He cultivated all existing genres: comedy, melodrama, arrabal, western, wrestling. He stood out particularly in the horror genre, with titles known as Ladrón de Cadáveres (1956), El Vampiro (1957), Misterios de Ultratumba (1958), among others.
Director - Directors
Fernando MéndezGuión - Screenplay
Gabriel Ramírez OsanteProductor - Producer
Raúl de Anda, Gabriel Alarcón, Cinematográfica Intercontinental (CICSA)Música - Music:
Gustavo César CarriónSonido - Sound:
Western ElectricCinematografía - Cinematography:
Manuel Gómez UrquizaEdición - Editor:
Carlos SavageDirección de Arte - Production Design:
Jorge FernándezIntérpretes - Cast
Víctor Parra, Aurora Segura, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Enrique del CastilloContacto - Contact
Filmoteca UNAMmicher@unam.mx
