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''Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic'' () is a 1976 Argentine
black comedy Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally ...
crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
directed by
José A. Martínez Suárez José Antonio Martínez Suárez (2 October 1925 – 17 August 2019) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He worked on more than 20 films between 1949 and 2003. He was the brother of actresses Mirtha and Silvia Legrand. Filmograph ...
. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
49th Academy Awards The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. Both '' Network'' and '' All the President's Men' ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Cast

* Mecha Ortiz as Mara Ordaz *
Arturo García Buhr Arturo García Buhr (16 December 1905 – 4 October 1995) was an Argentine actor and film director notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, classical era of Argentine cinema. He appeared in 30 films between 1933 and 198 ...
as Pedro *
Narciso Ibáñez Menta Narciso Ibáñez Menta (; 25 August 1912 – 15 May 2004) was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor. He developed much of his career in Argentina, during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. Biography Born in Langr ...
as Norberto *
Mario Soffici Mario Soffici (14 May 1900 – 10 May 1977) was an Italian-born Argentina, Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. Biography Mario Soffici was born in Florence, Florence, ...
as Martín * Bárbara Mujica as Laura


See also

* The Weasel's Tale, a 2019 remake *
List of submissions to the 49th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...
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List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Argentina has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature length, feature-length motion pictu ...


References


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* 1976 films 1970s Spanish-language films 1970s crime comedy films Films directed by José A. Martínez Suárez Argentine crime comedy films 1970s Argentine films {{1970s-crime-film-stub