Overview
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 Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's 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.
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 .... Esperanza
Pedro Armendáriz .... José Luis Castro
Emilio Fernández .... Rogelio Torres
Miguel Ángel Ferriz .... don Francisco
Armando Soto La Marina "Chicote" .... Reynaldo
Agustín Isunza .... Nicanor
Eduardo Arozamena .... Melchor
Mimí Derba .... doña Clara
Margarita Cortés .... sister of José Luis
Manuel Dondé .... Úrsulo Torres
José Elías Moreno .... colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
Lucha Reyes
Trío Calaveras
Pedro Galindo .... Pedro
Carlos Riquelme .... Cura
Tito Novaro .... son of Esperanza
Emilia Guiú .... an extra
References
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