The Woman of the Port
(1934)
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The Woman of the Port
(1934)
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Andrea Palma | ... |
Rosario
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Domingo Soler | ... |
Alberto Venegas
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Joaquín Busquets | ... |
Drunk sailor
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Consuelo Segarra | ... |
Doña Lupe, neighbor woman
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Luisa Obregón | ... |
Neighbor woman
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Elisa Soler | ... |
Neighbor woman
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Arturo Manrique | ... |
Argentinian sailor
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Jorge Treviño | ... |
American sailor
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Francisco Zárraga | ... |
Rosario's boyfriend
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Fabio Acevedo | ... |
Don Antonio, Rosario's father
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Antonio Polo | ... |
Don Basilio, the undertaker
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Ángel T. Sala | ... |
Man at the cabaret
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Conchita Gentil Arcos | ... |
Neighbor woman
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Julieta Palavicini | ... |
Woman with Rosario's boyfriend
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Lina Boytler | ... |
Woman singing in the night
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Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her love to the men coming from the sea." One night, sailor Alberto (Soler) rescues Rosario from the dirty hands of a drunk man. They get along and go to Rosario's room. After making love, they begin to talk and Rosario discovers they're siblings... Written by Maximiliano Maza <mmaza@campus.mty.itesm.mx>
Just a couple of years earlier(1931), Santa had been a great success(Santa is the story of a prostitute). Even in our days, Producers always like to repeat stories that make money for them(Star wars, Rocky, etc.). La mujer del Puerto is the story of a Peasant girl that betrayed by her boyfriend turns into a prostitute. She lives in a house by the port and sells her body to sailors that arrive to the place. The real story behind this movie is the fact that Rosario, the prostitute seems to live a life of guilt where she feels sorry for living such life. It is a story that tries to demonstrate that such profession is not something that anyone may want to follow, it is a picture that shows us her internal contradictory thoughts. The movie has a mix of good scenes and ridiculous ones. It is not a movie that follows the same pattern all the time. Perhaps the best of this movie is the presence of the leading lady, Andrea Palma. The ending is as good as any tragic soap opera that has ever existed.