The Abandoned

The Abandoned (1945)

Las abandonadas

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.

Date of release
1945-05-18
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Emilio Fernández

Casting

Interesting facts

The Abandoned is a 1945 Mexican film, directed and co-written by Emilio Fernández, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.

Production

Since its inception, the film was considered a rough project. Emilio Fernández's uncertain relationship with the movie studio Films Mundiales had become somewhat overconfident, judging by his increasingly frequent involvement in drafting the scripts of his films.

While Fernandez mixed stories that he had seen on the screen with events of the Mexican Revolution, producer Agustrín J. Fink became ill. A cloud of pessimism clouded preparations for the shooting, as the budget went over one million pesos, much of it invested in very expensive clothes that a Hollywood designer drew up for the showcasing of Dolores del Río.

In November 1944, The Abandoned was ready for release when the ban came exhibition. The then head of the Film Censor Department, under the Ministry of the Interior of Mexico, said he had suggested to Fernandez and Films Mundiales put a caption indicating that the plot was happening "In the turbulent Mexico of 1914." The incident was resolved through the intervention of journalists and film critics, who noted the incongruity of prohibiting the sho…

This film ranks 93 in the list of the 100 best films of Mexican cinema, in the opinion of 25 film critics and specialists in Mexico.

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