''The Wildcat'' (Spanish: ''El gato montés'') is a 1936 Spanish musical drama directed by Catalan

Rosario Pi Rosario Pi was a Catalan film director, producer, and screenwriter. With the release of her 1936 film ''El Gato montés'' (''The Wildcat (1936 film), The Wildcat)'' she became one of Spain's women film pioneers, along with Elena Jordi and Helena ...

and starring Pablo Hertogs, María del Pilar Lebrón, Víctor Merás and Mapy Cortés.Bentley p.127 It is based on the 1916 Spanish popular opera (also known as zarzuela or Spanish operetta) ''

El gato montés ''El gato montés'' ("The Wild Cat") is an opera in three acts composed by Manuel Penella who also wrote the Spanish-language libretto. It premiered on 23 February 1916 at the Teatro Principal in Valencia. The opera enjoyed great success in S ...

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Manuel Penella Manuel Penella Moreno (July 31, 1880, in Valencia – January 24, 1939, in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politician Ramón Ruiz Alons ...

. ''El gato montés'' is the first film in Spanish sound cinema directed by a woman.

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Bibliography

* Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008. *Martin-Márquez, Susan. ''Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen''. Oxford UP, 1999.

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* 1930s musical drama films 1936 films 1930s Spanish-language films Films based on operas Spanish black-and-white films Spanish musical drama films 1936 drama films {{musical-drama-film-stub