''The Dance'' (Spanish: ''El baile'') is a 1959

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comedy-drama film written and directed by

Edgar Neville Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the "other" Generation of '27. Biography Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood in the 193 ...

.Mira p.225 It is based on his own theatrical play, ''El baile'', released in (1952), which won the Spanish Premio Nacional de Literatura award. It was the second and last color film directed by Neville after '' Duende y misterio del flamenco''.

Plot

Pedro (Alberto Closas) and Julián (Rafael Alonso) are friends and they love the same woman, Adela (Conchita Montes). Madrid, 1905, Pedro and Adela had gotten married but Julian live with them. 1930. Adela discovers she is going to die and the two men had hidden the illness. 1955. Adelita (Conchita Montes), Adela's grand daughter, visits to the two men and they remember their love to Adele.

Cast

Conchita Montes Conchita Montes (13 March 1914 – 18 October 1994) was a Spanish film actress. Career Born in Madrid, Montes became a popular actress in Spanish films of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950 she starred in ''El último caballo'' an Edgar Neville film ...

as Adela / Adelita *

Alberto Closas Alberto Closas Lluró (30 October 1921, in Barcelona – 19 September 1994, in Madrid) was a prolific Spanish film actor who appeared in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and in Spanish cinema after 1955. His family emigrated to A ...

as Pedro *

Rafael Alonso Rafael Alonso Ochoa (5 July 1920 – 24 October 1998) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1951 and 1998. Selected filmography * '' Malibran's Song'' (1951) * ''Welcome Mr. Marshall!'' (1953 ...

as Julián

References

Bibliography

* Mira, Alberto. ''The A to Z of Spanish Cinema''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

External links

* 1959 films 1950s historical comedy-drama films Spanish historical comedy-drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Spain in fiction Madrid in fiction Films directed by Edgar Neville 1950s Spanish films {{comedy-drama-film-stub