''Los tres huastecos'' ("The Three
Huastecos") is a 1948
Mexican
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comedy-drama film directed by
Ismael Rodríguez
Ismael Rodríguez (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was a Mexican film director.
Rodríguez rose to fame due to the movies he directed starring Pedro Infante, and directed many major stars, including Dolores del Río, María Félix, Tos ...
.
Plot
Raised separately in three villages in
La Huasteca
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(a region in the northeastern
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
), Lorenzo, from
Tamaulipas
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, is an atheistic bandolier; Juan de Dios, from
San Luis Potosí
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, is a handsome priest; while Víctor, from
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
, is a captain in the army. Their great physical resemblance is a source of conflict. Juan de Dios tries to solve the problems with his two brothers. Mexican superstar
Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera music singer and actor, whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. His popularity spread across Latin America.
Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa ...
played three separate roles as each of these three individual triplets.
In the movie, the villain "El Coyote", whose identity is unknown, is killing and robbing the people in Lorenzo's village. His brother Víctor was transferred to the town to catch "El Coyote." Víctor also has a romantic interest in a village girl, Maritoña (
Blanca Estela Pavon
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), who flirts with him at a party while Veracruz song "La Tuza" plays. Maritoña firmly rejects all of Victor's advances after the party.
María Eugenia Llamas, who was only four at the time, made her screen debut in this movie as "La Tucita", a stage name she has used ever since.
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/ref> She played the daughter of the saloon owning and atheist triplet, Lorenzo.
In Tucita's first appearance in the movie, she has a snake and a tarantula as pets, both of which she handles with love. She also pushes around her otherwise hardened father shamelessly. For instance, she shoots at him with a pistol and misses. Then, she starts crying. Her father asks her if she is crying because she got scared. Tucita tearfully responds that she is crying because she didn't kill him, which doesn't make him mad. In another scene, when she is in bed, she keeps pestering her father for one thing after another, to which he always complies, if visibly annoyed. Finally, she calls him in the next room that she is thirsty and demands a glass of water. When he grudgingly brings it, she waters her plant with it instead of drinking it, making him more frustrated but not angry with her.
Her father's stoic acceptance (while sometimes visibly annoyed) of everything Tucita does to him shows the movie audience that he has a soft spot and is not as thoroughly corrupt as he is otherwise portrayed in the first part of the movie. Nevertheless, Juan de Dios is interested in his niece's physical and spiritual welfare. He sometimes puts on a false mustache to disguise himself in the movie as his otherwise identical brother to look in on her, which works in fooling her. She can't figure out why her "father" is acting so differently.
Lorenzo is finally formally accused of being El Coyote. However, Víctor is the one who gets arrested and held in the village jail because, disguised as his brother, he is mistaken for Lorenzo. A mob tries to get to him in his cell to hang him.
Lorenzo and Juan de Dios overcome the real Coyote (Alejandro Ciangherotti
Alejandro Ciangherotti (1940 – 30 May 2004) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1953 and 1999.
Selected filmography Film
* '' The Coward'' (1953) - Roberto, niño (uncredited)
* '' The Second Woman'' (1953) - Ramó ...
) while he is trying to kill them and get him to confess in writing that he is El Coyote. They place Tucita's pet tarantula on his chest, which scares the confession out of him. Tucita wags her finger at him and righteously tells him off. "Tan grandote y tan lloron (So big and such a baby.)
When presented to the authorities, that confession absolves Tucita's father and saves Víctor from the clutches of both the mob and the law. After all that, her father turns over a new leaf and takes Tucita to church for the first time. They kneel before the altar, and he lovingly shows her how to make the sign of the cross. As the movie ends, Víctor wins over the Maritoña while Juan de Dios and Lorenzo look on with great joy that all has turned out so well as their brother rides off with his lady love.
Cast
* Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera music singer and actor, whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. His popularity spread across Latin America.
Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa ...
as Juan de Dios Andrade/Lorenzo Andrade/Víctor Andrade
* Blanca Estela Pavón
María Blanca Estela Pavón Vasconcelos (February 21, 1926 – September 26, 1949) was a Mexican film actress and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
She appeared in many classic films of the 1940s as a young woman. Her career peaked ...
as Maritoña
* María Eugenia Llamas as Tucita
* Fernando Soto as Cuco
* Alejandro Ciangherotti
Alejandro Ciangherotti (1940 – 30 May 2004) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1953 and 1999.
Selected filmography Film
* '' The Coward'' (1953) - Roberto, niño (uncredited)
* '' The Second Woman'' (1953) - Ramó ...
as Alejandro
* Antonio R. Frausto as Don Damián
* Guillermo Calles
Guillermo Calles (25 June 1893 – 28 February 1958) was a Mexican film actor, film producer, producer and film director, director.Agrasánchez p.158
Selected filmography
* ''Behind Two Guns'' (1924)
* ''Dios y Ley'' (1929)
* ''El vuelo de la mue ...
as El Bronco
* Salvador Quiroz
Salvador Quiroz (1892–1956) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner, p. 355
Selected filmography
* ''Michael Strogoff'' (1944)
* '' Summer Hotel'' (1944)
* ''My Memories of Mexico'' (1944)
* '' The Black Ace'' (1944)
*''The Disobedient Son'' (1945)
* ...
as Colonel
* Julio Ahuet
Julio Ahuet was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, including ''Women Without Tomorrow'' (1951), '' Here Comes Martin Corona'' (1952), and the El Santo film ''Profanadores de tumbas'' (1966) ...
as Captain
* 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 ...
as Priest
* Chel López as Soldier
* Hernán Vera
Hernán Rogelio Vera Pavía (28 October 1892 – 29 January 1964) was a Mexican actor known for usually playing short, small roles, usually as a bartender, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
He began his career in theater, with some works ...
as Barman
* Irma Dorantes
* Andrés Huesca
* Leonor Gómez as Nana
References
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1948 films
1948 comedy-drama films
1940s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Ismael Rodríguez
Mexican comedy-drama films
Mexican black-and-white films
1940s Mexican films
Spanish-language comedy-drama films