Los Olvidados
(1950)
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Los Olvidados
(1950)
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Estela Inda | ... |
La madre de Pedro
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Miguel Inclán | ... |
Don Carmelo, el ciego
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Alfonso Mejía | ... |
Pedro
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Roberto Cobo | ... |
El Jaibo
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Alma Delia Fuentes | ... |
Meche
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Francisco Jambrina | ... |
El director de la escuela granja
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Jesús Navarro | ... |
El padre de Julián
(as Jesús García Navarro)
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Efraín Arauz | ... |
Cacarizo
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Sergio Villarreal |
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Jorge Pérez | ... |
Pelon
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Javier Amézcua | ... |
Julián
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Mário Ramírez | ... |
Ojitos
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
"Los Olvidados" focuses the drama mainly in the bandit 'El Jaibo', justarrived from a reformatory (where he learnt 'new techniques' of robbery), Pedro (Alfonso Mejía), a boy rejected by his mother and Ojitos (Mario Ramirez), abandoned by his family and the new comer to the group, showing a few hopeless days of a group of marginal youths, in the slums of Mexico in 1950, with the leadership of 'El Jaibo' (Roberto Cobo). . Each one of these boys is in a stage of criminality life: El Jaibo is graduated, Pedro is leaning and Ojitos will start. The restored B&W picture on DVD is splendid. Although taking place in Mexico, 1950, this masterpiece could be Rio de Janeiro or any other big city in a third world country in the present days. The end of the plot is marvelous. Fortunately the alternative end has never been used. Outstanding! My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Os Esquecidos" ("The Forgotten")