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Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in silent and Hollywood's Golden Age films. It is the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).
Plot
In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.
Cast
Dolores del Río as Esperanza
Pedro Armendáriz as José Luis Castro
Emilio Fernández as Rogelio Torres
Miguel Ángel Ferriz as don Francisco
Armando Soto La Marina as Reynaldo
Agustín Isunza as Nicanor
Eduardo Arozamena as Melchor
Mimí Derba as doña Clara
Margarita Cortés as sister of José Luis
Manuel Dondé as Úrsulo Torres
José Elías Moreno as colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
Lucha Reyes
Trío Calaveras
Pedro Galindo as Pedro
Carlos Riquelme as Cura
Tito Novaro as son of Esperanza
Emilia Guiú as an extra
References
Bibliography
Segre, Erica. Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links
Wild Flower at IMDb
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