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The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spanish:La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on a novel of the same title by Emilio Carrere.
In the film, a young man wins a small fortune through gambling according to the advice of an archaeologist's ghost. While investigating the archaeologist's supposed suicide, the man and his friend discover a Jewish underground city beneath Habsburg Madrid.




Plot


Basilio is a superstitious young man who courts the singer La Bella Medusa. Looking for money to invite her and her mother, he gambles. He wins a small fortune following the advice of Robinsón de Mantua. He is revealed to be the ghost of an archeologist dead after an apparent suicide. Basilio is attracted to Inés, who happens to be the niece of Professor Mantua. She refuses the verdict of suicide and asks for his help.
Basilio is helped by his friend, a police agent. They discover a passage from Mantua's home into an underground city under Habsburg Madrid, founded by Jews escaping their 1492 expulsion and now inhabited by money-forging hunchbacks led by Dr. Sabatino. The hunchbacks hold Inés and an archeologist friend of Mantua and try to force Basilio into staying. Basilio manages to escape and returns with the police to find Inés at her home, who barely remembers what happened. The police chief wants to arrest Basilio, but Inés intercedes. Meanwhile, Sabatino has blown down the tunnels.




Themes


The film features antisemitic tropes as core element of the plot, namely the appearance of a subterranean city dwelled by nefarious hunchbacks, founded by Jews back in 1492.
The idea that the hunchbacks are the descendants of the Jews is not explicit, though.




Cast


Antonio Casal as Basilio Beltrán
Isabel de Pomés as Inés
Guillermo Marín as Doctor Sabatino
Félix de Pomés as Don Robinson de Mantua
Julia Lajos as Madre de la 'Bella Medusa'
Julia Pachelo as Braulia
Manolita Morán as La 'Bella Medusa'
Antonio Riquelme as Don Zacarías
José Franco as Espectro de Napoleón
Manuel Miranda
Emilio Barta
Antonio L. Estrada
Luis Ballester
Luis Latorre
Rosario Royo
Julián García
Francisco Zabala
Natalia Daina
Carmen García
José Arias
Antonio Zaballos




References






Bibliography


Mira, Alberto. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.




External links


The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks at IMDb

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