La perla (film)
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| Directed by | Emilio Fernández |
| Produced by | Águila Films |
| Written by | John Steinbeck (adaptation by Emilio Fernández, John Steinbeck and Jackson Wagner) |
| Starring | Pedro Armendáriz María Elena Marqués Fernando Wagner Charles Rooner |
| Music by | Antonio Díaz Conde |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Editing by | Gloria Schoemann |
| Release date(s) | 1947 |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | 2 versions: Spanish and English |
La perla ("The pearl") is a 1947 Mexican film. The story is based on the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie.
In 1945, Emilio Fernández, who was in love with Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind), thought she was the ideal actress to play the starring role of this movie. He planned to produce the film for Óscar Dancigers, the Franco-Russian head of Águila Films who had arrived in Mexico three years earlier escaping the horrors of war in Europe. Dancigers prepared the production of the film with a script written by Fernández and Steinbeck, the author of the novel of the same name (The Pearl), in both Spanish and English versions.
After the success of this costly film, Dancigers became one of the most important producers of the Cinema of Mexico and Fernández obtained international recognition. De Havilland never knew of the love of Fernández but he was able to get the government of Mexico City to change the name of the street he grew up on to Dulce Olivia ("Sweet Olivia").
In 2002, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Plot [edit]
In a fishing village, Kino (Armendáriz) and his wife Juana (Marqués) are in anguish because their little son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion, the local doctor (a foreigner) refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother (Wagner), a loan shark meet Kino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him.
Awards [edit]
Venice Film Festival 1947 [edit]
- Emilio Fernández Golden Lion
Premio Ariel (1948) [edit]
- Awarded
- Emilio Fernández Ariel de Oro ("Golden Ariel")
- Pedro Armendáriz (actor)
- Juan García[disambiguation needed] (supporting actor)
- Gabriel Figueroa (photography)
- Nominated
- Gilberto Diego González (supporting actor)
- María Elena Marqués (actress)
- Gloria Schoemann (editing)
- Antonio Díaz Conde (score)
- Emilio Fernández (screenplay)
- Emilio Fernández (director)
Golden Globe 1949 [edit]
- Gabriel Figueroa (photography)
Madrid Film Festival 1949 [edit]
- Gabriel Figueroa (photography)
External links [edit]
- La Perla at the Internet Movie Database
- La Perla at the Cinema of Mexico site of ITESM. (Spanish)
- La perla at Red escolar. (Spanish)
- New York Times Movie Review
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