Wild Flower (1943 film)

Wild Flower
Directed by	Emilio Fernández
Produced by	Agustin J. Fink
Written by	Emilio Fernández Mauricio Magdaleno
Starring	Dolores del Río Pedro Armendáriz Miguel Ángel Ferríz Fernando Soto LaMarina Mimí Derba
Music by	Francisco Domínguez
Cinematography	Gabriel Figueroa
Edited by	Jorge Bustos
Distributed by	Films Mundiales
Release dates	1943
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Wild Flower (Spanish:Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.^[1] Is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in Silent and Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra.

Plot

Esperanza (Dolores del Río), a young and beautiful woman, narrates to her son her history across the Mexican Revolution.

Cast

• Dolores del Río .... Esperanza
• Pedro Armendáriz .... José Luis Castro
• Emilio Fernández .... Rogelio Torres
• Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr. .... don Francisco
• Armando Soto La Marina "Chicote" .... Reynaldo
• Agustín Isunza .... Nicanor
• Eduardo Arozamena .... Melchor
• Mimí Derba .... doña Clara
• Margarita Cortés .... sister of José Luis
• Manuel Dondé .... Úrsulo Torres
• José Elías Moreno .... colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
• Lucha Reyes
• Trío Calaveras
• Pedro Galindo .... Pedro
• Carlos Riquelme
• Tito Novaro .... son of Esperanza
• Emilia Guiú .... an extra

References

Bibliography

• Segre, Erica. Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

• Wild Flower at the Internet Movie Database