Bellas de noche

Bellas de noche
Directed by Miguel M. Delgado
Produced by Guillermo Calderòn
Written by Francisco Cavazos
Víctor Manuel Castro
Starring Sasha Montenegro
Jorge Rivero
Rosa Carmina
Music by Gustavo Cesar Carrión
Cinematography Miguel Araña
Distributed by Cinematográfica Calderón SA
Release dates
September 25, 1975
Running time
98 minutes
Country México
Language Spanish

Bellas de noche (in English Beauties by the Night), also known as Las ficheras, is a Mexican film directed by Miguel M. Delgado. It was filmed in 1975 and starring Sasha Montenegro and Jorge Rivero. It's regarded as the film that began the saga of the Mexican sex comedies film genre if the Mexican Cinema.

Plot

The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres (Jorge Rivero) loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí (The Lolipop), where he falls for the fichera Carmen (Sasha Montenegro), and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas (Eduardo de la Peña), who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul (Enrique Novi), to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita (Leticia Perdigón). When he discovers the situation, he hits the driver and send to the prison. Raúl sold his taxi to pay bail. El Vaselinas pretends to die to get rid of his creditors. The cabaret is closed and all begin a new life.[1] In the adventures of these characters, appended the alcoholic woman know as La Corcholata (Carmen Salinas), a sympathetic woman trying to sneak to the cabaret, and the history of the owner of the cabaret, Don Atenógenes (Raúl 'Chato' Padilla), and his wife, the mistress of the brothel, Maria Teresa (Rosa Carmina).

Production

The film is an adaptation of the stage play by Francisco Cavazos Las ficheras. In 1975, the film packed the movie theaters in Mexico City for 26 weeks. It was a production of Cinematográfica Calderón and was directed by Miguel M. Delgado. The Mexican Government censorship prohibited the previous title of the film (Fichera is a derogatory way of calling a cabaret woman in Mexico). Therefore, as a "tribute" to Luis Buñuel, the screenwriter Victor Manuel Castro took the title of the film Belle de Jour.[2]

Cast

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