''Rosa Blanca'' (''White Rose'') is a 1961 Mexican film starring

Ignacio López Tarso Ignacio López López (born 15 January 1925), known professionally as Ignacio López Tarso, is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was g ...

, based on a novel by

B. Traven B. Traven (; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is ...

Plot

An illiterate Indian lives an idyllic existence as a landowner on Mexico's Gulf Coast until the greed of an American oil company gets in the way. He is murdered and the lives of all those around him are destroyed as the company takes over the land by crooked means.

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* Mexican crime films Films based on works by B. Traven 1960s crime films 1960s Mexican films 1970s Mexican films {{1960s-Mexico-film-stub