Product Details

• Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Maria Elena Marques, Fernando Wagner, Charles Rooner
• Directors: Emilio Fernandez
• Format: NTSC, Import, Dolby
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001FLW2CC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,774 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description "La Perla", the magnificent 1947 film directed by Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez is a testament to his genius. With the help of one of the greatest cinematographers the world has ever known, Gabriel Figueroa, we are treated to a tale of hope and greed set in the Pacific coast of Mexico. Based loosely on John Steinbeck's story, the author himself, helped enhance his own story with the screen treatment. We are introduced to Quino and Juana and their infant son, living in poverty. They are starving because the seas have been too turbulent to go pearl fishing. They almost lose the boy that is bitten by a scorpion and the village doctor refuses to take care of the infant since they have no money. The village women nurse him back to health. When Quino and Juana go fishing, he discovers a large and shiny pearl. This pearl will be their undoing. Quino is hoping for a better life for the boy, so that he doesn't have to lead their precarious life. Fate, on the other hand, intervenes as the beautiful pearl becomes the object of desire for the ruthless dealers, and the doctor, who want to steal it from Quino. They end up fleeing their village. In a sequence that is as cruel, as it is beautiful, we see the fishers being pursued by the dealer and his Indian searchers, and the doctor through the mangroves first, and the arid countryside later on. Unfortunately, Quino and Juana are robbed of something more precious than the magnificent pearl that has been the object of their downfall.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful lesson, August 15, 2011

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This review is from: La Perla (The Pearl) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (DVD)

My husband and I both saw this as children and started a conversation about it recently. I ordered it for him as a little suprise and we watched it together.
We both love this movie and the message it has. Get your tissue out!!!