Dalagang Ilocana

Dalagang Ilocana (1954)

A funny poignant film about an Ilocana maiden.

Date of release
1954-07-04
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Olive La Torre

Casting

Interesting facts

Ilocana Maiden is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film directed by Olive La Torre from a screenplay by Luciano B. Carlos, Conrado Conde, and Willie P. Orfinada, based on a story written by T. D. Agcaoili, who also wrote additional lyrics with Conde. It stars Gloria Romero, Ric Rodrigo, and Rudy Francisco, while the supporting cast includes Dolphy and Rebecca del Rio.

Background

Olive La Torre directed Gloria Romero as a country girl who rolls tobacco leaves into cigars for a living. Romero is a comedian, combining as she does a nose with eyes that slant. Dolphy has a role as a comic sidekick. The film, set in the lands of the Ilocos region, is also a advertisement on smoking, with seemingly everyone onscreen from the haciendero to the tobacco roller lighting up cigars made from uncut tobacco leaf; one character actually…

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