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Feature film work re-working The Comedy of Errors in the ‘ranchera’ genre, the Mexican version of the ‘singing cowboy’ film. Set in a rural Mexican town the film is ‘A relatively faithful...
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Musical. A loose re-working of Romeo and Juliet set in the streets of Barcelona where a quarrel erupts between two warring gypsy families. Probably building on the success of WEST SIDE STORY the film...
Feature film. A farce parodying Romeo and Juliet (and strongly referencing Cukor’s 1936 film version) starring Cantinflas, the celebrated Mexican comedian (real name Mario Moreno). Lanier (op cit) notes...
Latin American exploitation film loosely based on Macbeth and set in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. Maximiliano (Alvarado) is a good man who has fallen in with a bandit clan. But after three...