La sombra del otro (film)

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La sombra del otro
Directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares
Written by María Luisa Algarra (dialogue), Francisco Javier Camargo (radio series)
Produced by Fernando de Fuentes, Vicente Saisó Piquer
StarringRicardo 'Pajarito' Moreno, Marco Antonio Campos, Gaspar Henaine
CinematographyJosé Ortiz Ramos
Edited by Pedro Velázquez
Music byLuis Hernández Bretón
Release date
  • 13 November 1957 (1957-11-13)
Running time
80 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

La sombra del otro ("The Shadow of the Other") is a 1957 Mexican film. It was produced by Fernando de Fuentes. The film stars Viruta and Capulina, as themselves, in the lead roles.

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Plot

Viruta and Capulina are the owners of a cafeteria and combine this business with that of assistants to an incipient boxer, whom they accompany in his hard training sessions, as he considers them his good luck talismans, but after that. They meet two women, Celicia and Alejandra.

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Reception

The film is remembered noted as a boxing film and for the presence of Moreno in the cast. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Allen, Stephen D. (2017-09-15). A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN   978-0-8263-5855-4.
  2. Osorio, Jesús Alberto Cabañas (2023). El box en el cine mexicano (1940-1983): una práctica moderna y nacionalista, corporal y simbólica en la representación cinematográfica (in Spanish). Universidad Iberoamericana A.C. ISBN   978-607-8931-72-9.