Red Cross Girls

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Red Cross Girls
Spanish Las chicas de la Cruz Roja
Written by Rafael J. Salvia
Pedro Masó
Produced byPedro Masó
Starring Antonio Casal
Luz Márquez
Mabel Karr
Concha Velasco
Tony Leblanc
Katia Loritz
Arturo Fernández
Ricardo Zamora Jr.
Cinematography Alejandro Ulloa
Edited by José Antonio Rojo
Music by Augusto Algueró
Distributed byCompañía Industrial Film Español S.A.
Release date
  • 5 November 1958 (1958-11-05)
(Madrid)
Running time
83 minutes
CountrySpain

Red Cross Girls (Spanish: Las chicas de la Cruz Roja) is a 1958 Spanish film directed by Rafael J. Salvia. It is a musical romantic comedy.

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Plot

Four women from different social backgrounds - Julia (Luz Márquez), Isabel (Mabel Karr), Paloma (Concha Velasco) and Marion (Katia Loritz) - meet in Madrid while soliciting donations for the Red Cross, attracting men and becoming good friends in the process. [1]

Cast

Reception

The film critic Lorenzo Hortelano considered Red Cross Girls one of the best examples of the "well-meaning, humorous and nostalgic popular" [2] Spanish cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, following a romantic narrative set against a background that "praises "the joy of the 'modern' Madrid of the fifties." [2]

In the 1980s some Spanish critics dismissed this film's genre as “silly comedies” that presented a false view of Spanish life. [3]

Soundtrack

The main theme, composed by Augusto Algueró became a popular hit in Spain. [4]

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References

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