Beatriz Ramos Movies
- 1953
This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a pair of young lovers from rival villages who will not be able to marry until a long time feud is ended. In another tale, an heir to a large fortune falls in love with an impoverished girl. His family is dead set against the match. When he is diagnosed with a fatal tumor, the man begs the girl to marry him, but she refuses and instead arranges for him to marry another. In the third story, a matador's comely sister falls in love with a street vendor. Unfortunately, the matador hates her beloved and to break them up permanently, slyly convinces the peddler to enter the dangerous bullring. Fortunately for the sister, her brother's scheme fails spectacularly. She then marries the peddler and makes an ironic discovery. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ricardo Montalban, (more)
A Bunuel melodrama about a man conned into harassing tenants that his boss wants evicted. Other complications along the line are his seduction by the boss's mistress and his falling in love with a girl whose father he has accidentally murdered. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, (more)
- 1951
Better known as Ascent to Heaven, Luis Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride is a genial surrealistic comedy with many of the earmarks but little of the elegant cruelty of Bunuel's later works. Esteban Marquez plays a young bridegroom who is called away from the altar. Marquez's mother is dying, necessitating a bumpy two-day ride in a rickety bus to the little village where mama resides. En route, Marquez meets many eccentric characters, and is detained in a variety of mirth-provoking ways. Once he's arrived, Marquez is prevented from returning to his wedding by legal squabble's over mama's will. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Esteban Marquez, Lilia Prado, (more)
- 1950
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, Las Joyas del Pecado begins when an otherwise faithful wife enters into an illicit affair when she is offered a pearl necklace. After the wife dies giving birth to her illegitimate child, her husband discovers that the necklace is fake. Feeling that his wife was twice betrayed, the embittered husband goes on a lifelong quest to seek out and kill the man responsible. No one in 1950 denied that Las Joyas del Pecado was well-acted and meticulously produced. Still, something was missing: the film died at the box-office in Mexico, and didn't fare much better when distributed to other Spanish-language markets. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Fernando Soler, Rita Macedo, (more)
The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked for an artist and was stoned to death because of the incident. She must consider the consequences while making a similar choice. ~ John Bush, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, (more)
- 1942
Mi Viuda Allegre (My Merry Widow) was perceived by some reviewers as a reworking of the French box-office success La Soir Revolution. Spanish comedian Angel Garasa makes his screen debut as a middle-class family man who disappears during a trip out of town. Presumed dead, Garasa is actually hale and hearty, but for reasons of his own he elects not to reveal this fact. Our hero is galvanized into returning to life to squelch the romance between his "widow" Beatriz Ramos and handsome doctor Jorge Reyes. Conga-rumba dancer Margarita Mora stops the show with an energetic nightclub number. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ángel Garasa, Beatriz Ramos, (more)
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