La perla (film)

La perla The Pearl is a 1947 MexicanAmerican film by the acclaimed director Emilio Fernndez. The story is based on the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also cowrote the screenplay for the movie.

In a fishing village, Kino Armendriz and his wife Juana Marqus are in anguish because their little son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion, the local doctor a foreigner refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother Wagner, a loan shark meet Kino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him.When the film was originally released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film, writing, An exceptional motion picture, both in content and genesis, is the beautiful and disturbing filmization of John Steinbecks novelette, The Pearl, which reached an appropriate showcase at the Sutton Theatre yesterday. Exceptional it is in genesis by virtue of the fact that it was made in Mexico by a Mexican company with Mexican actors who speak English throughout. And extraordinary it is in content through the benefit of a story of primitive power, told with immaculate integrity through an eloquent camera. ........

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