El huerto del francés (1978)

Director:

Paul Naschy

Writers:

Paul Naschy (screenplay) and
Antonio Fos (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 June 1978 (Spain)

Genre:

Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Female Nudity | Execution | Prostitute | Murder

Cast

María José Cantudo	...	Andrea (as Maria Jose Cantudo)
Ágata Lys	...	Charo (as Agata Lys)
Paul Naschy	...	Juan Andrés Aldije 'El Francés'
José Calvo	...	José Muñoz Lopera (as Pepe Calvo)
Carlos Casaravilla
José Nieto		(as Jose Nieto)
Silvia Tortosa
Julia Saly
Yolanda Ríos		(as Yolanda Rios)
Nélida Quiroga		(as Nelida Quiroga)
José Moreno		(as Jose Moreno)
Manuel Pereiro
Patrick
Víctor Iregua		(as Victor Iregua)
Paco Catalá		(as Francisco Catala)

Runtime:

Spain:93 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Algete, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Laro Films

Trivia:

Paul Naschy omitted his name as an actor from all the promotional material for this movie (centering it around María José Cantudo and Ágata Lys), to prevent the audiences from thinking this was the usual Naschy spook stuff. He, however, appears on it as a director under his real name, Jacinto Molina.

Soundtrack:

Romance

a great realistic movie

one of the myths of fantastic movies, Paul Naschy, filmed this realistic drama in the best tradition of Spanish novel (Cela, Blasco Ibañez ) and paintings (Goya, Gutierrez Solana ) .

the story of a real psychokiller, " the french man ". Besides Naschy two beautiful stars, María José Cantudo ( in her best role ) and Agatha Lys.

The action is good, the atmospheric photography looks great ans crime scenes are strong . A film for rediscovering .