Godfather Mendoza

Godfather Mendoza
Godfather Mendoza
Directed by	Fernando de Fuentes
Written by	Mauricio Magdaleno
Screenplay by	Fernando de Fuentes; Juan Bustillo Oro;
Produced by	José Castellot Jr.; Rafael Ángel Frías; Antonio Prida Santacilia;
Starring	Alfredo del Diestro; Carmen Guerrero; Antonio R. Frausto;
Cinematography	Ross Fisher
Edited by	Fernando de Fuentes
Music by	Manuel Castro Padilla
Release date	1934;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Godfather Mendoza (Spanish: El compadre Mendoza) is a 1934 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes, and is the second of his Revolution Trilogy, preceded by El prisionero trece (1933) and followed by Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936).

In 1994, the Mexican magazine Somos published a list of "The 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico" in its 100th edition and choose El compadre Mendoza the 3rd best of all time, just behind Vámonos con Pancho Villa and Los olvidados.^[1]

Plot

This is the story of Rosalío Mendoza, a Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Rosalío survives by befriending both the army and the revolutionaries. Everyone is welcomed in his ranch, but the situation becomes unbearable and Rosalío must choose whose side he is on.^[2]

Cast

Various of main cast appeared in more than one movie of the trilogy:

References

^ Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine. September 17, 2012
^ (in Spanish) El compadre Mendoza (1934) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. January 16, 2015

External links

Godfather Mendoza at IMDb

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[somos-1] Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine. September 17, 2012

[2] (in Spanish) El compadre Mendoza (1934) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. January 16, 2015

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