''The King's Mail'' (Spanish:''Correo del rey'') is a 1951 Spanish
historical
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adventure film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
Ricardo Gascón
Ricardo Gascón (1910–1988) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.de España p.109 A Catalonia, Catalan, Gascón generally worked at the Orphea Studios in Barcelona. He directed fourteen films during his career.
Selected filmography
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and starring
Cesare Danova
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,
Juana Soler and
Isabel de Pomés
Isabel de Pomés (10 April 1924 – 31 May 2007) was a classic Spanish film actress and one of the leading ladies in Spanish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.
She appeared in over 30 films between 1941 and 1965.
Her father was the actor and sport ...
.
[Peiró p.302] It was made at the
Orphea Studios in
Barcelona
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.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* Eva Woods Peiró. ''White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musical Films''. U of Minnesota Press, 2012.
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1950s historical adventure films
Spanish historical adventure films
1951 films
1950s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Ricardo Gascón
Napoleonic Wars films
Films with screenplays by Rafael J. Salvia
Spanish black-and-white films
1950s Spanish films
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