Product Details

• Actors: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé
• Directors: Luis Buñuel
• Format: Black & White, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hens Tooth Video Movies
• VHS Release Date: July 22, 1997
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000007SXR
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,975 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not just a modernized Othello; the ending will amaze you!, May 23, 1999

By	Marc Capralis (Temecula, CA United States) - See all my reviews

As I watched this 1952 Mexican film by Luis Bunuel, I thought it was just an updated version of Shakespeare's Othello, albeit an excellent version of Othello. But Bunuel is too great an artist to be ordinary. The acting of Arturo De Cordova, who is the perfect picture of jealousy gone mad, and the rest of the cast is excellent. I strongly recommend this film to Bunuel fans, as well as lovers of foreign film. The surrealistic ending alone is worth the price of admission.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecta, February 14, 2001

By	Enrique Guevara (Monterrey N.L. Mex) - See all my reviews

Esta es una pelicula perfecta en todos los sentidos. No trata de mostrar mas de lo que muestra y esta dirigida de una manera impecable. No es la mejor pelicula de Buñuel porque no daba para tanto el guión y no lo quizo forzar el propio Buñuel. El tema es el del marido celoso y neurotico, tratado de manera muy refrescante. Muy recomendable si se quiere aprender a hacer cine y si se quiere disfrutar una palicula bien hecha

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality of the Print - Better available, February 15, 2005

By	Mr. C. Rhucroft - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just bought from[...]a Cine-Club DVD, double feature with The Criminal Life of Archibald Cruz. Since I paid 2 euro (c. $2) I thought the quality was going to be bad - however the picture quality for El at least (since I have not yet watched Cruz) is excellent with non of the degradation as described by other reviewers. The DVD has removable sub-titles for both French and English and the English version was very comprehensible. Worth looking out for.

As for the film itself - a work of skill with excellent performances, but would the other reviewers have targetted the supposed Bunuel hallmarks so readily if they did not know in advance it was Bunuel film ? - my personal feeling was that this film is much closer to a conventional 1950's study of madness film with the relatively naive ideas about mental illness of those times than is to Chambermaid and later stuff. The church scene at the end I honestly found a bit corny.