Broken Toys (1966)
"Juguetes rotos" (original title)

Director:

Manuel Summers

Writers:

Tico Medina, Manuel Summers (screenplay),

Stars:

Rosita Pinedo, Justo Masó, Guillermo Gorostiza

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Rosita Pinedo	...	Herself
Justo Masó	...	Himself (as El gran Gilbert)
Guillermo Gorostiza	...	Himself
Paulino Uzcudum	...	Himself
Hilario Martínez	...	Himself
Ricardo Alís	...	Himself
Luis Vallespín	...	Himself
Eusebio Librero	...	Himself
Eduardo López	...	Himself
Francisco Díaz 'Pacorro'	...	Himself (as Pacorro)
Marina Torres	...	Herself
Nicanor Villalta	...	Himself

Storyline

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

10 November 1966 (Spain)

Also Known As:

Broken Toys

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 2,375,424 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paraguas Films S.A., Productores Exhibidores Films Sociedad Anónima (PEFSA)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

User Reviews

The painful twilight of triumph

Sociological document about the doubtful and transitory greatness of success, which commercial bump cut off Summers unruly and promising career, that since then would be focus on the most tedious and loathsome commercial search.

In a capable montage that mixed library pictures with interviews through a complex combination of acrimony, tenderness and sarcasm, the film shows the pathetic situation of some old figures (Uzdudum, boxer; Gorostiza, footballer; Villalta, bull-fighter; El Gran Gilbert, singer and show-man...) with the objective of recriminate the hateful competence of human nature for desert the same idols that it created with passion.

In the other hand, the report offers a cynical and exhaustive description of vices and deficiencies of Spanish sixties way of life, that, how it was to be presumed, couldn't dodge the pro-Franco censorship.