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Gemelos Alborotados, Los (1982 Film)

Director

Mario Hernandez

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...

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Otello, Comando Negro (1982 Film)

aka: Othello, The Black Commando

Director

Max H. Boulois

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)...

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Tarantos, Los (1964 Film)

Director

Francisco Rovira Beleta

Producer

Jose G. Maesso; Leonard Gruenberg

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...

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Romeo y Julieta (1943 Film)

Director

Miguel M. Delgado

Producer

Jacques Gelman; Santiago Reachi

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...

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Sangrador (2000 Film)

aka: Bleeder

Director

Leonardo Henriquez

Producer

Alberto Arvelo

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...

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