''El verdugo de Sevilla'' ("The Executioner of Seville") is a 1942 Mexican film. It stars

Sara García Sara García Hidalgo (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the " Golden Age of Mexican cinema". During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grand ...

and Fernando Soler. It is based on a play by

Pedro Muñoz Seca Pedro Muñoz Seca (20 February 1879 – 28 November 1936 ) was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both '' sainetes'' (short vignettes) and longer plays ...

. It was made as part of a series of Mexican films set in Spain in the 1940s, such as '' Dos mexicanos en Sevilla'' (1942). Its title is a reference to ''

The Barber of Seville ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an '' opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was b ...

'', an 18th-century French play by

Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satiris ...

Cast

* Fernando Soler as Don Bonifacio Bonilla *

as Doña Nieves *

Domingo Soler Domingo Soler (born Domingo Díaz Pavia; 17 April 1901 – 13 June 1961) was a Mexican actor and occasional screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He appeared in over 150 films and wrote the screenplays for 2 films. Soler won an Ariel ...

as Sansoni *

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 December 1885 – 4 August 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.Taibo p.155 Born as Julio Crochet i Martínez Villarreal in Madrid to a family of theat ...

as Talmilla * Miguel Arenas as Sinapismo

References

External links

* 1942 films 1940s Spanish-language films Films based on works by Pedro Muñoz Seca Mexican black-and-white films 1940s Mexican films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub