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Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Drama · 1h 37m
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Cast
María Félix
Inés Rojas
Gérard Philipe
Ramón Vázquez
Jean Servais
Alejandro Gual
Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr.
le Gouverneur Mariano Vargas
R
Raúl Dantés
Lieutenant García
Domingo Soler
Professeur Juan Cárdenas
Víctor Junco
Indarte
Roberto Cañedo
Le colonel Olivares
Andrés Soler
Le président Carlos Barreiro
Luis Aceves Castañeda
López - le secrétaire de Gual
Armando Acosta
Manuel
E
Edmundo Barbero
Crew
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Writer
- Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza, Charles Dorat, Louis Sapin
- Novel
- Henri Castillou
- Director of Photography
- Gabriel Figueroa
- Original Music Composer
- Paul Misraki
- Editor
- Rafael Ceballos, James Cuenet
- Producer
- Jacques Bar, Óscar Dancigers, Gregorio Walerstein
Details
- Original title
- La fièvre monte à El Pao
- Release date
- 1959-12-05
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, French
- Countries
- France, Mexico
- Production
- Le Groupe des Quatre, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique, Filmex