''The Blood Stain'' (Spanish:''La Mancha de Sangre'') is a 1937 Mexican

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directed by Adolfo Best Maugard and starring

Estela Inda Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1924 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including ''Los olvidados'' by Luis Buñuel in 1949. Biography Inda started her career as extra in the successful ...

, José Casal and Heriberto G. Batemberg. It had serious problems with the Mexican

censors Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...

due to its portrayal of prostitution.Biltereyst & Vande Winkel, p.71 The film's sets were designed by the art director Mariano Rodríguez Granada.

Cast

* José Casal * Heriberto G. Batemberg *

Manuel Dondé er Manuel Dondé (1906 – 27 May 1976) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 He frequently played villains during his long film career. Selected filmography * ''La llorona'' (1933) * ''Soulless Women'' (1934) - Policía * ''El bastardo'' (1937 ...

* Lorenzo Diaz Gonzalez * Elvira Gosti * Chico Mabarak * José Muñoz * Luis Santibanez * Diego Villalba

References

Bibliography

* Daniel Biltereyst & Roel Vande Winkel. ''Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

External links

* 1937 films 1937 drama films Mexican drama films 1930s Spanish-language films Films about prostitution in Mexico Films set in Mexico City {{1930s-Mexico-film-stub Mexican black-and-white films 1930s Mexican films