The King is the Best Mayor

The King is the Best Mayor

Directed by	Rafael Gil
Written by	Félix Lope de Vega (play)
Starring	Analía Gadé Simonetta Stefanelli Ray Lovelock
Cinematography	José F. Aguayo
Edited by	Giantito Burchiellaro
Music by	Salvador Ruiz de Luna
Production companies	Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Coral Producciones Cinematográficas Midega Film
Release date	29 April 1974
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	Italy Spain
Language	Spanish

The King is the Best Mayor (Italian:Il miglior sindaco, il re, Spanish:El mejor alcalde, el rey) is a 1974 Italian-Spanish historical drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Analía Gadé, Simonetta Stefanelli and Ray Lovelock.^[1]

The film is based on the play The Best Mayor, The King by Lope de Vega.

Cast

Analía Gadé as Felicia
Simonetta Stefanelli as Elvira
Ray Lovelock as Sancho
Fernando Sancho as Conde
Andrés Mejuto as The King
Pedro Valentín as Pelayo
José Nieto as Nuño
Antonio Casas as Celio
Tomás Blanco as Alcalde
Alejandro de Enciso as Julio
Luis Induni as D. Enrique
Fernando Sánchez Polack as Yuntero
Rafael Corés as Obispo

References

^ Bentley p.205

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

External links

The King is the Best Mayor at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Rafael Gil
1940s	The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1942) Journey to Nowhere (1942) Traces of Light (1943) Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943) Lessons in Good Love (1944) The Nail (1944) Thirsty Land (1945) The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945) The Prodigal Woman (1946) The Holy Crown (1947) Don Quixote (1947) The Faith (1947) Mare Nostrum (1948) The Sunless Street (1948) Just Any Woman (1949) Adventures of Juan Lucas (1949)
1950s	Saturday Night (1950) Apollo Theatre (1950) The Great Galeoto (1951) Our Lady of Fatima (1951) The Song of Sister Maria (1952) From Madrid to Heaven (1952) I Was a Parish Priest (1953) He Died Fifteen Years Ago (1954) Judas' Kiss (1954) The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955) The Cock Crow (1955) The Big Lie (1956) Miracle of the White Suit (1956) Let's Make the Impossible! (1958) Luxury Cabin (1959) College Boarding House (1959)
1960s	Litri and His Shadow (1960) Darling (1961) Green Harvest (1961) Rogelia (1962) Queen of the Chantecler (1962) You and Me Are Three (1962) The Blackmailers (1963) Pedrito de Andía's New Life (1965) Currito of the Cross (1965) Samba (1965) Road to Rocío (1966) He's My Man! (1966) Another's Wife (1967) Fruit of Temptation (1968) The Sailor with Golden Fists (1968) A Decent Adultery (1969) Blood in the Bullring (1969)
1970s	The Locket (1970) The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1970) The Green Envelope (1971) The Doubt (1972) Nothing Less Than a Real Man (1972) The Guerrilla (1973) The King is the Best Mayor (1974) The Good Days Lost (1975) Forget the Drums (1975) Death's Newlyweds (1975) The Legion Like Women (1976) Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them (1977) Father Cami's Wedding (1979)
1980s	Spoiled Children (1980) And in the Third Year, He Rose Again (1980) Old Shirt to New Jacket (1982) The Autonomines (1984) The Cheerful Colsada Girls (1984)

v t e Lope de Vega
Plays	Madness in Valencia (1590s) The Steel of Madrid (1608) The Dog in the Manger (1618) The Widow from Valencia (1600) Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña (1600s) Fuenteovejuna (1619) Fenisa's Hook (1617) The Best Mayor, The King (1620s) A Lady of Little Sense (1613) Punishment without Revenge (1631) Las bizarrías de Belisa (1990)
Adaptations	The King is the Best Mayor (1974) The Dog in the Manger (1978) The Dog in the Manger (1996) La Dama Boba (2006)
Related	Lope (2010 film) List of Lope de Vega's plays in English translation

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