''María Islands'' (Spanish: ''Las Islas Marías'') is a 1951 Mexican

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Emilio Fernández Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (; 26 March 1904 – 6 August 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 know ...

and starring

Pedro Infante Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera singer and actor whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and raised in nearby Guamúchil. He died on 15 Apri ...

Rosaura Revueltas Rosaura Revueltas Sánchez (August 6, 1910 – April 30, 1996) was a Mexican actress of stage and screen whose career was cut short by the entertainment industry blacklist in the 1950s. She is best known for her role in the 1954 film ''Salt of t ...

, and

Rocío Sagaón Rocío is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, derived from the Virgin of El Rocío and ultimately from the Latin ''Roscidus'', literally meaning ''dew''. Notable people with the name include: *Rocío Banquells (born 1958), Mexican pop singer a ...

. Berumen p.238 It was made at the

Churubusco Studios Estudios Churubusco is one of the oldest and largest movie studios in Mexico. It is located in the Churubusco neighborhood of Mexico City. History It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta ...

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. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Manuel Fontanals Manuel Fontanals Mateu (1893–1972) was a Spanish art director who settled and worked in Mexico during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Early years The son of the cabinetmaker Tomàs Fontanals i Sivilla and his mother Rosa Mateu, Manolo 'Manue ...

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took place on the

Islas Marías The Islas Marías ("Mary Islands") make up an archipelago in Mexico, consisting of four islands. They are located in the Pacific Ocean, some off the coast of the state of Nayarit and about southeast of the tip of Baja California. They are part ...

from which the films takes its name.

Cast

as Felipe Ortiz Suárez *

as Rosa Suárez vda. de Ortiz *

as María * Esther Luquín as Alejandra * Jaime Fernández as Ricardo *

Arturo Soto Rangel Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Soto was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. He appeared in one American movie, '' The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'', which w ...

as Miguel *

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 November 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 Rector escuela militar *

Rodolfo Acosta Rodolfo Pérez Acosta (July 29, 1920 – November 7, 1974) was a Mexican-American character actor who became known for his roles as Mexican outlaws or American Indians in Hollywood western films. He was sometimes credited as Rudolph Acosta ...

as El Silencio * Tito Junco as General *

Luis Aceves Castañeda Luis Aceves Castañeda (1913–1973) was a Mexican film actor.Paietta, p. 141. Selected filmography * '' Juan Charrasqueado'' (1948) * '' Philip of Jesus'' (1949) * '' Red Rain'' (1950) * '' Maria Islands'' (1951) * ''A Place Near Heaven'' (19 ...

as Detective de policía *

Julio Ahuet Julio Ahuet was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, including ''Women Without Tomorrow'' (1951), ''Here Comes Martin Corona'' (1952), and the El Santo film ''Profanadores de tumbas'' (1966). ...

as Taxista * Daniel Arroyo as Invitado a fiesta * Josefina Burgos as Florista * Margarita Ceballos as Margarita * Aurora Cortés as Sirvienta * José Escanero as Vecino * Rogelio Fernández as Alguacil * Georgina González as Espectadora marcha militar * Gilberto González * Emilio Gálvez * Leonor Gómez as Cocinera Islas Marias * Elodia Hernández as Parienta de prisionero * Regino Herrera as Preso * Felipe Montoya as Lic. González * Yolanda Ortiz as Cabaretera * Ignacio Peón as Actuario *

Salvador Quiroz Salvador Quiroz (1892–1956) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner, p. 355 Selected filmography * ''Huapango (film), Huapango'' (1938) * ''Horse for Horse'' (1939) * ''With Villa's Veterans'' (1939) * ''To the Sound of the Marimba'' (1941) * ''The 9 ...

as Coronel * Humberto Rodríguez as Actuario * Jorge Treviño as Don Jorge *

Hernán Vera Hernán Rogelio Vera Pavía (28 October 1892 – 29 January 1964) was a Mexican actor known for usually playing short, small roles, usually as a bartender, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He began his career in theater, with some works ...

as Don Venancio * Manuel Vergara 'Manver' as Borracho cabaret

References

Bibliography

* Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia. ''Brown Celluloid: 1894-1959''. Vantage Press, 2003. * Gilabert, Rosa Peralt. ''Manuel Fontanals, escenógrafo: teatro, cine y exilio''. Editorial Fundamentos, 2007. * Heredia, Juanita. ''Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

External links

* 1951 films 1951 drama films Mexican drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Emilio Fernández Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films Spanish-language drama films Estudios Churubusco films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub