''La razón de la culpa'' (English: "The reason for the blame") is a 1943 Mexican film directed by

Juan José Ortega Juan José Ortega (October 27, 1904 – December 27, 1996) was a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and directed over 40 films between 1942 and 1966. Filmography Director * Fl ...

who also directed Corazón salvaje. The film stars

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Andrés Soler Andrés Díaz Pavia (18 November 1898 – 26 July 1969), better known by the stage name Andrés Soler, was a Mexican actor. He was considered one of the greatest figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Soler appeared in about two hundred fil ...

and

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as well as

Pedro Infante Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera singer and actor whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and raised in nearby Guamúchil. He died on 15 Apri ...

as Roberto. This was one of

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's first films. Pedro Infante was still a novice when he was cast in the role of Roberto, a Spaniard

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, but it was his northern accent (Sinaloa) that caused the director Juan José Ortega to make the decision to overdub Infante's voice with that of Jesús Valero, who was from Spain. While it was Valero's speaking voice in the film, it was Infante's voice giving character to the songs he interprets. When the film was broadcast on Netflix Spain however, all the voices were overdubbed so that the accents matched those of the viewers in Spain. The role as Roberto was the only film that Infante appeared in that he portrayed a foreigner.

Songs

* ''Rosalía'' * ''Bendita Palabra'' by Agustín Lara

Plot

Robert meets and falls in love with a married woman while on a transatlantic crossing from Spain to Mexico. Once in Mexico, he goes to her home and claims to be a friend of her husband Andrés and is offered lodging until he returns.

Cast

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Razón de la culpa, La 1943 films Mexican romantic drama films