| La sombra del otro | |
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| Directed by | Gilberto Martínez Solares |
| Written by | María Luisa Algarra (dialogue), Francisco Javier Camargo (radio series) |
| Produced by | Fernando de Fuentes, Vicente Saisó Piquer |
| Starring | Ricardo 'Pajarito' Moreno, Marco Antonio Campos, Gaspar Henaine |
| Cinematography | José Ortiz Ramos |
| Edited by | Pedro Velázquez |
| Music by | Luis Hernández Bretón |
| Release date |
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| 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.
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.
Cast
- Ricardo 'Pajarito' Moreno as Ricardo
- Marco Antonio Campos as Viruta (as Viruta)
- Gaspar Henaine as Capulina (as Capulina)
- Ana Bertha Lepe as Cecilia
- Freddy Fernández
- Víctor Gómez
- Tere Velázquez as Alejandra
- Luis Aragón as don Blas García
- Velia Vegar as Doña Catita
- José Castro
- Enrique García Álvarez as Boss Guillermo
- Julio Sotelo
- Nicolás Morán 'El Chintololo'
- Nico 'El Chintololo' (as Nicolas Moran)
- Tomás Castillo
- Ernesto Parra
- Raúl Torres 'El Fufurufo'
- Kildo Martínez
- Rudy Coronado
- Beto Carbajal
- Baby Rivera as El Bay López
- Lino Botello
- Jaime Magallon
- Sonia Furió as Singer
- Trío Avileño
- Ricardo Adalid (uncredited)
- Arturo Castro 'Bigotón' as Mensajero de Jhonson (uncredited)
- Leonor Gómez (uncredited)
- Pedro Mago Septien as Storyteller (uncredited)
- Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi as Coach el Fufurufo (uncredited)
Reception
The film is remembered noted as a boxing film and for the presence of Moreno in the cast.
References
- 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.
- 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.
External links
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