El marqués de Salamanca (1948)

Biographic film about José de Salamanca

Director:

Edgar Neville

Writers:

Tomás Borrás (biographic study), Edgar Neville

Stars:

Fernando Aguirre, Gabriel Algara, Manuel Arbó

Cast

Credited cast:
Fernando Aguirre
Gabriel Algara
Manuel Arbó
Carlota Bilbao
Xan das Bolas
María Cañete
Pat Clark
Benito Cobeña
Enrique Guitart
Alfonso Horna
Casimiro Hurtado
Julio Infiesta
Manuel Kayser
Agustín Laguilhoat
Ivonn Lamarr

Storyline

Biographic film about José de Salamanca

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Plot Keywords:

place name in title

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Genres:

Biography

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

13 December 1948 (Spain)

Filming Locations:

Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Comisión Organizadora del I Centenario del Ferrocarril, Edgar Neville

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Superb hagiography of José de Salamanca by the great Neville.

The film is a part of the biography of Joseph of Salamanca1st Marquis of Salamanca and Grandee of Spain (23 May 1811, Malaga - 21 January 1883, Madrid) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and businessman. He served as Finance Minister of Spain and Briefly as de facto prime minister in 1847.

Prominent During the reign of Isabella II, He was responsible for an extension to the city of Madrid, the Salamanca neighborhood of that city now bears his name. He had an adventurous life with many ups and downs. At one time he probably had the largest fortune in Spain. His associates included prominent Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen mother and regent for the young Queen Isabella. As a businessman, he undertook many projects That shaped modern Spain: railways, construction of entire Neighborhoods, banking and Investments, at the same time, he was associated with no small amount of political and corporate corruption.

Given the hagiography way that Neville gives the film in all senses, makes another of his genre paintings, half imagined recreations of a Madrid idealized, pure and popular, this time covered in their classrooms, offices and ministries. It was filmed with more ease than usual in Neville, with a magnificent reconstruction era, and brilliantly dialogues, is high comedy Neville style than anything else, that is, where everything can be taken as a joke starting the tawdriness.

Therefore the best is in the brilliance of his dialogues and the parade of particular types like that great pair of loan sharks, which are straight out of comic vignettes of the Spanish magazine "La Codorniz". Excellent performance as "Salamanca" Beau most successful of those years, Alfredo Mayo, and magnificent presence and performance, as always, the great actress who was Conchita Montes, playing "María Buschental" banker's wife José de Buschental , she was courtly figure of Madrid and platonic lover of the protagonist throughout his life, at least life movie.