''Gangster's Kingdom'' (Spanish:''El reino de los gángsters'') is a 1948 Mexican
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
written and directed by
Juan Orol
Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol (August 4, 1897 in Lalín, Pontevedra, Spain – May 26, 1988 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as ''The King of ...
who also starred in the film. Like Orol's other films it was an attempt to copy the style of Hollywood films of the era.
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Cast
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Víctor Alcocer
Víctor Alcocer Gómez (March 23, 1917 – October 2, 1984) was a Mexican actor of film, television and voice-over.Manuel Arvide
Manuel Arvide (1897–1969) was a Mexican film actor.Hardy p.287
Selected filmography
* ''Heads or Tails'' (1937)
* '' Another Dawn'' (1943)
* ''El Ametralladora'' (1943)
* ''The Escape'' (1944)
* ''Adultery'' (1945)
* ''Twilight'' (1945)
* '' Ma ...
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Rosa Carmina
Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer.
She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. S ...
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Roberto Cañedo
Roberto Cañedo Ramírez (30 March 1919 – 16 June 1999), better known as Roberto Cañedo, was a Mexican actor of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During his career, he appeared in over 300 films.
Cañedo received two Ariel Award for Best Act ...
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Roberto Corell
Roberto Corell was a Mexican film actor.Agrasánchez p.158 He appeared in more than eighty films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''Narciso's Hard Luck'' (1940)
* ''The Unknown Policeman'' (1941)
* '' Rosalinda'' (1945)
* ''A Day with th ...
* Rafael María de Labra
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Francisco Jambrina
Francisco Jambrina Campos (December 3, 1902 – January 21, 1967) was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355
Selected filmography
* '' Simón Bolívar'' (1942)
* ''Michael Strogoff'' (1944)
* ''Twilight'' (1945)
* ''Fly Away, Young Man! ...
* Cecilia Leger as Mamá
* Kiko Mendive
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Juan Orol
Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol (August 4, 1897 in Lalín, Pontevedra, Spain – May 26, 1988 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as ''The King of ...
* José Pardavé
* Rafael Plaza Balboa
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Lilia Prado
Lilia (Latin plural, meaning "lilies" in English; singular, ''lilium'') are pit traps arranged in a quincunx pattern dug by the Roman armies in front of their defences. Frequently they had sharpened stakes set inside them as an extra obstacle to a ...
* Juanita Riverón
* Joaquín Roche
* Ramón Vallarino
* Armando Velasco
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Eduardo Vivas
Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to:
Association football
* Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator
* Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese football ...
* Enrique Zambrano
References
Bibliography
* Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez & Ana M. Lopez. ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures''. Routledge, 2002.
External links
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1948 films
1948 crime films
Gangster films
Mexican crime films
1940s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Juan Orol
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Mexican black-and-white films
1940s Mexican films