''Cuatro contra el mundo'' (Spanish: ''Four Against the World'') is a 1950 Mexican film noir crime drama film directed by
Alejandro Galindo, who also wrote the screenplay alongside
Gunther Gerzso, and starring
Víctor Parra and
Leticia Palma, about a gang that raids a van that carries money. The film is considered as a prototype for Mexican film noir.
Cast
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Víctor Parra as Paco Mendiola
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Leticia Palma as Lucrecia
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Tito Junco as Máximo
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José Pulido as Antonio Gil "Tony"
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Manuel Dondé
Manuel Dondé (1906 – 27 May 1976) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 He frequently played villains during his long film career.
Selected filmography
* ''La Llorona (1933 film), La llorona'' (1933)
* ''Soulless Women'' (1934) - Policía
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as El Lagarto
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Conchita Gentil Arcos as Doña Trini
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Salvador Quiroz as El general
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Sara Montes as Novia de Tony
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José Elías Moreno
José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican character actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1937 and 1969. He was from the state of Jalisco. His José Elías Moreno Jr., son of the same name, born in 1956 ...
as Comandante Canseco
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Bruno Márquez as Don Romulo (as Bruno T. Marquez)
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Manuel de la Vega as Domínguez, agente policía
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Ángel Infante as Manejador de cerveceria
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Carlos Bravo y Fernández as Periodista (uncredited)
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Ramón Bugarini as Detective (uncredited)
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Rafael Estrada as Periodista (uncredited)
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Jesús García as Empleado de sastre (uncredited)
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Emilio Garibay as Policía (uncredited)
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Leonor Gómez as Vecina de Lucrecia (uncredited)
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Rafael Icardo as Señor Mantecol (uncredited)
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Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Don Nacho (uncredited)
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Manuel Trejo Morales as Maestro Flaves, sastre (uncredited)
*Alfredo Varela as Empleado de cerveceria (uncredited)
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Hernán Vera as Velador de cerveceria (uncredited)
Themes
Film critic
Emilio García Riera states that the film has a strong influence on the
left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...
of director Alejandro Galindo. He stated that the film allowed him to represent a crime in a relatively small scenario as an expression of reactionary tendencies.
Production
''Cuatro contra el mundo'' is considered a prototype for a Mexican version of film noir, a genre popularized in the United States in the 1940s.
Restoration
''Cuatro contra el mundo'' has been restored in cooperation with the film library of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...
, Fundación Televisa, the Cineteca Nacional and the
Morelia International Film Festival
The Morelia International Film Festival (''Spanish'': ''Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia''; FICM) was founded in 2003 in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, México. It is an annual event that takes place during the second week of October.
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. The restored version was part of the Forum section of the
65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, after the head of this section, Christoph Terhechte, had seen it at the Morelia International Film Festival.
References
Bibliography
*Ayala Blanco, Jorge. ''Cartelera cinematográfica 1950–1959.''
*García Riera, Emilio. ''Historia Documental del Cine Mexicano.''
External links
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{{Alejandro Galindo
1950 films
Film noir
1950s Spanish-language films
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Mexican crime drama films
1950 crime drama films
Mexican black-and-white films
1950s Mexican films