''Pepe the Bull'' () is a 1953 Mexican

sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in ...

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

Ismael Rodríguez Ismael Rodríguez (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was a Mexican film director. Rodríguez rose to fame due to the movies he directed starring Pedro Infante, and directed many major stars, including Dolores del Río, María Félix, Tos ...

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 ...

, Evita Muñoz "Chachita" and

Amanda del Llano Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, "she who must (or is fit to) be loved". Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much by e ...

. It was the last in a trilogy of films featuring Infante and Muñoz playing the father and daughter characters (Pepe El Toro and Chachita, respectively) in the 1948 releases '' Nosotros los Pobres (We the Poor)'' and '' Ustedes los ricos (You the Rich)''. A planned fourth film in the series was cancelled when Infante died in 1957. The film was nominated for four

Ariel Award The Ariel Award () is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the award reco ...

Cast

as Pepe "El Toro" * Evita Muñoz "Chachita" as Chachita *

as Amalia * Irma Dorantes as Lucha * Freddy Fernández as Atita * Fernando Soto as Antonio Feliciano de la Rosa *Juan Orraca as Don Pancho, Coach *

Armando Velasco Armando Velasco (18 January 1918 – 29 September 1999) was an Ecuadorian-born Mexican actor who worked on the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, on films such as '' The Saint Who Forged a Country'' (1942), '' Historia de un gran amor'' (1942), an ...

as Graduate *Felipe Montoya as Delegate *Elodia Hernández as Doña Rafaela *Joaquín Cordero as Lalo Gallardo * Wolf Ruvinskis as Bobby Galeana *

Pedro Elviro Pedro Elviro Rodríguez (died 24 August 1971), also known as Pitouto, was a Spanish actor. Between 1924 and 1972, he shot more than 170 films, a good part of them in France and Mexico. Selected filmography * '' The Darling of Paris'' (1931) as Au ...

as Lawyer

Accolades

Ariel Award The Ariel Award () is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the award reco ...

References

External links

* 1950s sports drama films Mexican sports drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Ismael Rodríguez Mexican boxing films 1953 drama films Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films Spanish-language sports drama films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub