The Phantom Lady (film)

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The Phantom Lady
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Directed by Luis Saslavsky
Written by Rafael Alberti
María Teresa León
Starring Delia Garcés
Enrique Diosdado
Cinematography José María Beltrán
Edited by Oscar Carchano
Music by Julián Bautista
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company
Release date
1945
Running time
101 min
CountryArgentina
Language Spanish

The Phantom Lady (Spanish: La Dama duende) is a 1945 Argentine film directed by Luis Saslavsky. At the 1946 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards the film won Silver Condor Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Music. [1] It is based on a seventeenth-century comedy with the same name by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated as The Phantom Lady . However, the film alters the play considerably - the plot is heavily rewritten, and the style of dialogue is completely changed. Calderon's comedy is written in verse, while the screenplay of the film is in prose and contains scenes not found in the play. The final scene includes a fierce storm from which the hero rescues the heroine and declares his love for her, a scene added to the film.

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It was selected as the eighth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1977. [2]

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References

  1. "Películas claves del cine nacional en copias impecables". Los Andes (in Spanish). 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva. Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken (3): 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.