Thunder Over Mexico(1933)

🎬70 min
📅1933-09-22
🎭Drama, Documentary
5.0/10

Overview

As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. This film is the first of several attempts to make a feature-length motion picture out of the 200,000-plus feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein, on photographic expedition in Mexico during 1931-32 for Upton Sinclair and a cadre of private American producer-investors. Silent with music and English intertitles.

Production

The Mexican Picture Trust

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Cast

Martín Hernández
as Sebastian Enriquez
Isabel Villaseñor
as Maria, his betrothed
Félix Balderas
as Sebastian's Brother
Julio Saldívar
as The Haciendado