''Raffles'' (Spanish: ''Raffles mexicano'') is a 1958 Mexican

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring

Rafael Bertrand Rafael Bertrand (20 August 1917 – 5 October 1983) was a Cuban film actor who worked for many years in the Mexican film industry. He played a Mexican version of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in the 1958 film '' Raffles''.Hardy p.284 He was m ...

María Duval María Duval may refer to: * María Duval (Argentine actress) María Duval (born María Mogilesky; 17 May 1926 – 10 May 2022) was an Argentine actress, considered one of the most representative performers of the Golden Age of Argentine ...

and

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.Hardy p.284 The film is based on

E.W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles (character), A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educa ...

books about the British gentleman thief

A.J. Raffles Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, an inversion of Holmeshe is a "gentlem ...

, who is portrayed here as a Mexican. The film appears to be lost. The film's sets were designed by the

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Gunther Gerszo Gunther Gerzso (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre. Biography Gerzso was born in Mexico City, in the times of the Revolution. His parents were Oscar Gerzso (), a H ...

Plot summary

Cast

* Pepe Alameda *

Miguel Arenas Miguel Arenas (1902 – 3 November 1965) was a Spanish film actor.Kohner p.355 He emigrated to Mexico where he appeared in more than a hundred films. Career He began his acting training at the Ramón de Campoamor Society. He joined Arturo Lledó ...

León Barroso Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

José Baviera José Baviera (17 August 1906 – 13 August 1981) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films and television shows between 1924 and 1979. He starred in Luis Buñuel's 1962 film ''The Exterminating Angel''. Selected filmogra ...

as Roberto 'Rafles' * Quintín Bulnes * Alfonso Carti *

Víctor Manuel Castro Víctor Manuel Eduardo Castro Arozamena (1924–2011) was a Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.Ramírez Berg p.127 Filmography * ''Voices of Spring'' (1947) * '' Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''The Unknown Mariachi'' (1953) * '' Raffles'' ( ...

Mario Cid Mario (; ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. ...

Manuel Dondé Manuel Dondé (1906 – 27 May 1976) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 He frequently played villains during his long film career. Selected filmography * ''La Llorona (1933 film), La llorona'' (1933) * ''Soulless Women'' (1934) - Policía * ...

as Señorita Espíndola *

as Doña Constancia * Arturo Martínez as Comandante * Roberto Meyer *

Martha Mijares Martha Mijares (19 January 1938 – 18 October 2018) was a Mexican film actress.Sicre p.32 She appeared in twenty seven films between 1954 and 1960 including the crime adventure '' Raffles''. She belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema The G ...

as Alicia * Mario Sevilla * Manuel Trejo Morales * Jorge Trevino

References

Bibliography

* Hardy, Phil. ''The BFI Companion to Crime''. A&C Black, 1997.

External links

* 1958 films 1958 crime films Mexican crime films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Alejandro Galindo Works based on A. J. Raffles Films set in Mexico 1950s Mexican films 1950s lost films Lost crime films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub