Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 6, 1950Release Date
Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 6, 1950Release Date
Plot.
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
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Cast & Crew.
Víctor Parra
Paco Mendiola
Leticia Palma
Lucrecia
Tito Junco
Máximo
Manuel Dondé
El Lagarto
José Pulido
Antonio Gil; Tony
Alejandro Galindo
Director
Conchita Gentil Arcos
Doña Trini
Salvador Quiroz
El general
Details.
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Cuatro contra el mundo (Spanish: Four Against the World) is a 1950 Mexican film noir crime drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Gunther Gerzso, and starring Víctor Parra and Leticia Palma, about a gang that raids a van that carries money. The film is considered as a prototype for Mexican film noir.