Daddy issues, but make it crime family and 1950s Mexican cinema.
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
Acting
Carmen Montejo carries the daughter's disillusionment with devastating restraint.
Direction
Gómez Urquiza squeezes maximum tension from minimal sets and shadows.
Director
Zacarías Gómez Urquiza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This obscure noir exemplifies how Mexico's Golden Age studios churned out genre films that borrowed heavily from Hollywood while adding Catholic guilt and family honor codes.
Director Zacarías Gómez Urquiza was prolific but remains critically neglected; most prints of his films, including this one, are believed lost or deteriorating in archives.
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