Gran Casino

Gran Casino (1947)

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Erscheinungsdatum
1947-06-12
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (28)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 32 Min.
Genres
Musik, Drama
Regie
Luis Buñuel

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Gran Casino is a 1947 Mexican film. It was written by Mauricio Magdaleno and Edmundo Baez, based on a story by Michel Weber, and directed by Luis Buñuel.

Background

From the release of the film Honeysuckle in 1938, Libertad Lamarque was the most popular artist in Argentine cinema. She had made her name on stage and radio as a tango singer and she was able to capitalize on that success by combining her singing and acting abilities in pictures that pulled their melodramatic plots straight from the tales told in popular tangos.

A French national of Russian-Jewish origin, Oscar Dancigers had fled the Nazis in 1940, due to his membership in the Communist Party, and settled in Mexico, where in short order he had founded Ultramar Films and achieved considerable success as a small independent producer. Dancigers specialized in assisting U.S. film companies with on-location production in Mexico.

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