100 minutos
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.
Víctor Parra
Paco Mendiola
Leticia Palma
Lucrecia
Tito Junco
Máximo
José Pulido
Antonio Gil
Manuel Dondé
El Lagarto
Conchita Gentil Arcos
Doña Trini
Salvador Quiroz
El general
Sara Montes
Novia de Antonio
José Elías Moreno
Comandante Canseco
Bruno Márquez
Don Romulo
Manuel de la Vega
Domínguez, agente policía
Ángel Infante
Manejador de cerveceria
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Don Nacho
