The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (film)

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks
Film poster
Directed by	Edgar Neville
Written by	Emilio Carrere (novel)
Produced by	Germán López Prieto España Films
Starring	Antonio Casal Isabel de Pomés
Cinematography	Henri Barreyre (as Enrique Barreyre) Andrés Pérez Cubero
Edited by	Sara Ontañón
Music by	José Ruiz de Azagra
Distributed by	España Films
Release date	23 November 1944
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spanish:La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on a novel of the same title by Emilio Carrere.

Plot summary

In 19th century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number where the ball is going to fall. The protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious man turn out to be the ghost of an archaeologist and ask the young man to defend his daughter from a gang of hunchbacks.

Cast

• Antonio Casal ... Basilio Beltrán
• Isabel de Pomés ... Inés
• Guillermo Marín ... Doctor Sabatino
• Félix de Pomés ... Don Robinson de Mantua
• Julia Lajos ... Madre de la 'Bella Medusa'
• Julia Pachelo ... Braulia
• Manolita Morán ... La 'Bella Medusa'
• Antonio Riquelme ... Don Zacarías
• José Franco... Espectro de Napoleón
• Manuel Miranda
• Emilio Barta
• Antonio L. Estrada
• Luis Ballester
• Luis Latorre
• Rosario Royo
• Julián García
• Francisco Zabala
• Natalia Daina
• Carmen García
• José Arias
• Antonio Zaballos

Bibliography

• Mira, Alberto. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

External links

• The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks at IMDb