Streetwalker (1951)
(Trotacalles)
Country: MEX
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Matilde Landeta
Cast: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Elda Peralta, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Synopsis:
Two sisters discover the price of love, the hard way.
Review:
Landeta's vision of society is an uncompromising one. Driven to prostitution by a cad, the saintly María falls in love again, with her pimp, unaware that he is planning to hustle her sister Elena, who is securely married to a rich older man. Fate plays a part, too: María is injured by their car at the start, to the indifference of her sister, and left for dead by it at the end; both sisters love the same man, twice, both times without knowing it. Above all there is the sense that a woman's fate hangs on her youth and good looks, and the favour of men. The acting is pretty good, in spite of the melodramatic trimmings, but the direction can be creaky, with mismatched edits and lurching transitions which may at times be due to the condition of the print.
(Trotacalles)
Country: MEX
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Matilde Landeta
Cast: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Elda Peralta, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Synopsis:
Two sisters discover the price of love, the hard way.
Review:
Landeta's vision of society is an uncompromising one. Driven to prostitution by a cad, the saintly María falls in love again, with her pimp, unaware that he is planning to hustle her sister Elena, who is securely married to a rich older man. Fate plays a part, too: María is injured by their car at the start, to the indifference of her sister, and left for dead by it at the end; both sisters love the same man, twice, both times without knowing it. Above all there is the sense that a woman's fate hangs on her youth and good looks, and the favour of men. The acting is pretty good, in spite of the melodramatic trimmings, but the direction can be creaky, with mismatched edits and lurching transitions which may at times be due to the condition of the print.
(Trotacalles)
Country: MEX
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Matilde Landeta
Cast: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Elda Peralta, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Synopsis:
Two sisters discover the price of love, the hard way.
Review:
Landeta's vision of society is an uncompromising one. Driven to prostitution by a cad, the saintly María falls in love again, with her pimp, unaware that he is planning to hustle her sister Elena, who is securely married to a rich older man. Fate plays a part, too: María is injured by their car at the start, to the indifference of her sister, and left for dead by it at the end; both sisters love the same man, twice, both times without knowing it. Above all there is the sense that a woman's fate hangs on her youth and good looks, and the favour of men. The acting is pretty good, in spite of the melodramatic trimmings, but the direction can be creaky, with mismatched edits and lurching transitions which may at times be due to the condition of the print.