''I'm a Real Mexican'' (Spanish: ''Soy puro mexicano'') is a 1942 Mexican

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directed by

Emilio Fernández Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (; 26 March 1904 – 6 October 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best kn ...

and starring Pedro Armendariz,

Janet Alcoriza Janet Alcoriza (born Janet Riesenfeld; January 4, 1918 – November 12, 1998), also known as Raquel Rojas, was an American screenwriter and actress of Austrian and Scotch-Irish descent who spent most of her career in Mexico. She contributed to mo ...

and

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. Its plot has drawn comparisons to the American '' All Through the Night'' released the same year.Herzberg The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho.

Synopsis

A Mexican

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escapes from jail and becomes entangled with a ring of

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agents who are plotting an invasion of Mexico.

Cast

Pedro Armendáriz Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings (May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars ...

as Guadalupe Padilla *

as Raquel *

as Juan Fernández * Andrés Soler as Osoruki Kamasuri * Margarita Cortés as Conchita * Charles Rooner as Rudolph Hermann von Ricker * Antonio Bravo as Agente X 32 * Alfredo Varela as Pepe * Pedro Galindo * Alejandro Cobo * Miguel Inclán as Pedro * Armando Soto La Marina as Ángel * Conchita Sáenz as Mamá de Conchita *

Alfonso Bedoya Benito Alfonso Bedoya y Díaz de GuzmánSan Antonio Light, Dec. 17, 1957, p. 20 (April 16, 1904 – December 15, 1957) was a Mexican actor who frequently appeared in U.S. films. He is best known for his role in ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...

* Abelardo Guttiérez * Egon Zappert * Ernest Ruschin * Modesto Luengo * Stephen Berne as Esbirro de Rudolph * Max Langler *

Pedro Vargas Pedro Vargas Mata ( San Miguel de Allende, 29 April 1906 – Mexico City, 30 October 1989) was a Mexican tenor and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema, participating in more than 70 films. He was known as the "Nightingale of the Ame ...

* Luis Aguilar as Rafael * Rogelio Fernández

References

Bibliography

* Herzberg, Bob. ''Revolutionary Mexico on Film: A Critical History, 1914-2014''. McFarland, 2014.

External links

* 1942 films 1940s comedy thriller films Mexican comedy thriller films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Emilio Fernández Mexican black-and-white films 1942 comedy films 1940s Mexican films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub