''While Mexico Sleeps'' (Spanish:''Mientras México duerme'') is a 1938 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

Arturo de Córdova Arturo García Rodríguez (8 May 1908 – 3 November 1973), known professionally as Arturo de Córdova, was a Mexican actor who appeared in over a hundred films. Biography Career Arturo García Rodríguez was born in Mérida, Yucatán on 8 May ...

Gloria Morel Gloria Morel (1918–2005) was a Mexican film and television actress. Ramírez p.186 She made her film debut in 1934 and appeared in a number of productions during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Later in her career she appeared mainly in teleno ...

and

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 ...

.Spicer p.467 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 ...

Jorge Fernandez.

Cast

as Federico La Cierva * Gloria Morel as Margarita *

as Méndez * Alberto Martí as Jefe de policia * Gaby Macias as Cantante * Ramón Vallarino as Roberto * Carlos López * Gilberto González as Germán * Roberto Banquells *

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 ...

Víctor Manuel Mendoza Víctor Manuel Mendoza (1913–1995) was a Mexican film actor.Agrasánchez, Jr. p.159 Selected filmography * ''Almas rebeldes'' (1937) * ''Ojos tapatios'' (1938) - Carlos * ''Los bandidos de Río Frío'' (1938) - Juan Robreño * ''While Mexico S ...

* Raúl Guerrero *

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' ...

* Arturo Turich * Elena Ureña * Emma Duval *

Armando Soto La Marina Armando Soto La Marina (1909–1983) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in a large number of productions from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema onwards. He was considered a rising star in the 1940s but his erratic alcohol-fuelled behaviour led t ...

References

Bibliography

* Spicer, Andrew. ''Historical Dictionary of Film Noir''. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

* 1938 films 1938 crime films Mexican crime films Film noir 1930s Spanish-language films Films directed by Alejandro Galindo Films set in Mexico Mexican black-and-white films Films scored by Manuel Esperón 1930s Mexican films {{1930s-Mexico-film-stub