''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 and 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 ...

, 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 archai ...

and Janet Alcoriza and starring Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro and Fernando Soto. It is based on the farce ''Don Quintín, el amargao'' by Carlos Arniches 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

* Fernando Soler as Quintín Guzmán * Alicia Caro as Martha * Fernando Soto as Angelito * Rubén Rojo as Paco * as Jonrón * as Jovita *Lily Aclemar as María *Álvaro Matute as Julio *Roberto Meyer as Lencho García * Conchita Gentil Arcos as Toña García *Francisco Ledesma as Don Laureano, bartender * Armando Acosta as Waiter (uncredited) *Armando Arriola as Gambler (uncredited) * Victorio Blanco as Gambler (uncredited) * Lupe Carriles as Woman on the street (uncredited) * Enrique Carrillo as Policeman (uncredited) *Gerardo del Castillo as Cabaret announcer (uncredited) *Enedina Díaz de León as Neighbor (uncredited) *José Escanero as Gambler (uncredited) * Jesús García as Onlooker in accident (uncredited) *Isabel Herrera como Onlooker in accident (uncredited). *Cecilia Leger as Neighbor (uncredited). *Xavier Loyá as Young gambler (uncredited) *

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como Bartender (uncredited) *Lucrecia Muñoz as Client in cabaret (uncredited) *Rubén Márquez as Man dancing in cabaret (uncredited) *Ignacio Peón as Client (uncredited) * Jorge Pérez as Gossipy young man (uncredited) * Salvador Quiroz as Manager at train station (uncredited) *Polo Ramos as Messenger (uncredited) *Joaquín Roche as Man in restaurant (uncredited) *Félix Samper as Old man kicked (uncredited) * Hernán Vera as Lencho's friend (uncredited) *Acela Vidaurri as Client in cabaret (uncredited)

References

External links

* 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