''Los muertos no hablan'' (The Dead Do Not Speak) is a 1958 Mexican

western film The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...

directed by

Jaime Salvador Jaime Salvador Valls (4 November 1901 – 18 October 1976) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director of the Golden era of Mexican cinema. He is known for writing and directing various low-budget comedies, westerns, and rancheras. Select ...

, starring

Antonio Aguilar José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza (17 May 191919 June 2007) was a Mexican singer, actor, songwriter, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter with a dominating career in music. He recorded over 150 albums, which sold 25 mill ...

as Mauricio Rosales, and

Flor Silvestre Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla (16 August 1930 – 25 November 2020), known professionally as Flor Silvestre, was a Mexican singer and actress. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music, and ...

as Alondra, the

femme fatale A ''femme fatale'' ( or ; ), sometimes called a maneater or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps. She is an archetype of ...

. The film follows another adventure of the rural policeman in a town notoriously known for its band of criminals led by "Alma Negra". It is the seventh installment of the ''Mauricio Rosales "El Rayo"'' film series, and the last subsequently until the 1980 film ''Sabor a sangre''. It was filmed in

Mexiscope {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Mexiscope was a cinematic process used in various Mexican film productions, specifically by Producciones Rosas Priego and Rosas Films, intended to widen the screen format. This process' color w ...

, a rare cinematographic process specially used in productions of Rodolfo Rosas Priego.

Cast

as Mauricio Rosales *

as Alondra *Rina Valdarno as "La Italiana" *Sara Montes as Violeta *Agustín Isunza as Emeterio Berlanga *Diana Ochoa as Doña Barbara "Alma Negra" *Ángel Infante as Municipal president *Daniel 'Chino' Herrera as "Chinito" *José Eduardo Pérez as Enrique del Olmo *Roberto Meyer as Don Darío *Antonio Raxel as Doctor Aceves *Elena Luquín as Cristina *José Luis Fernández as "Balasuave" *Pedro Padilla as Ricardo Mireles *Mario Sevilla as Hermostenes Rojas

External links

* 1958 Western (genre) films 1958 films Mexican Western (genre) films Films directed by Jaime Salvador 1950s Mexican films 1950s Spanish-language films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub