''Daughter of Deceit'' (Spanish: ''La hija del engaño'') is a 1951 Mexican film directed by

Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and m ...

, written by

Luis Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

and

Janet Alcoriza Janet Alcoriza (born Janet Riesenfeld; January 4, 1918 – November 12, 1998), also known as Raquel Rojas, was an American screenwriter and actress of Austrian and Scotch-Irish descent who spent most of her career in Mexico. She contributed to mor ...

and starring

Fernando Soler Fernando Soler (born Fernando Díaz Pavia; 24 May 1896 – 25 October 1979) was a Mexican actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He was considered one of the most important figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In his career spanning ...

, Alicia Caro and Fernando Soto. It is based on the farce ''Don Quintín, el amargao'' by

Carlos Arniches Carlos Arniches Barreda (11 October 1866 – 16 April 1943)"Arniches (y Barrera), Carlos" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 577. was a Spanish playwright, born in Al ...

and Antonio Estremera. The film is part of the "generic, assembly-line pictures that Buñuel was offered to direct" while he was making films in Mexico. Buñuel had previously been a scriptwriter, although uncredited, for an earlier film adaptation of ''Don Quintín, el amargao'' made in his native Spain in 1935. As a result, it is the only work of which Buñuel made two versions.

Plot

Don Quintin, a man who is always having economic problems, one day comes home to find his wife in bed with another man. He begins having doubts about the paternity of his daughter and decides to leave. Years later he decides to find her.

Cast

as Quintín Guzmán * Alicia Caro as Martha * Fernando Soto as Angelito *

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as Paco *

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as Jonrón *

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as Jovita * Lily Aclemar as María *

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as Julio *

Roberto Meyer The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

as Lencho García *

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as Toña García * Francisco Ledesma as Don Laureano, bartender *

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as Waiter (uncredited) *

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as Gambler (uncredited) *

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as Gambler (uncredited) *

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as Woman on the street (uncredited) * Enrique Carrillo as Policeman (uncredited) *

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as Cabaret announcer (uncredited) *

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as Neighbor (uncredited) *

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as Gambler (uncredited) *

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as Onlooker in accident (uncredited) *

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como Onlooker in accident (uncredited). *

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as Neighbor (uncredited). *

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as Young gambler (uncredited) *

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como Bartender (uncredited) *

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as Client in cabaret (uncredited) * Rubén Márquez as Man dancing in cabaret (uncredited) *

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as Client (uncredited) * Jorge Pérez as Gossipy young man (uncredited) *

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as Manager at train station (uncredited) * Polo Ramos as Messenger (uncredited) *

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as Man in restaurant (uncredited) *

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as Old man kicked (uncredited) *

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as Lencho's friend (uncredited) *

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as Client in cabaret (uncredited)

References

External links

* 1951 films Films based on works by Carlos Arniches Films directed by Luis Buñuel 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican comedy-drama films 1951 comedy-drama films Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub

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