

82 minutes of sweaty jazz clubs, dirty cops, and heroin dreams gone wrong.
Production
Mexico City jazz club atmosphere on a shoestring budget.
Acting
Noé Murayama's slithery villain energy outclasses the material.

Director
Alberto Mariscal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dual director credit suggests studio interference; Mariscal was primarily known for westerns, making this urban detour curious.
Part of Mexico's 1960s 'cine de ficheras' adjacent wave—exploitation cinema responding to Hollywood noir and domestic moral panic about drugs.