Nosotros los pobres

Nosotros los pobres We, the Poor is a 1948 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodrguez. It was originally titled Topillos y Planillas named after two of the characters in the film and before the main character Jose Pepe el Toro was created, but later changed after its author Pedro de Urdimalas heard Abel Cureo whos also in the film and at that time was playing a street orange seller in the radio show La Banda de Huipanguillo commenting in character about the unfair treatment of the poor people in the city exclaimed Nosotros los pobres somos despreciados por la gente Nosotros los pobres no tenemos nada We the poor are outcast by society We the poor own nothing.

After Pepe successfully finishes some jobs, he asks Chachita to save the money in a place only shes supposed to know, but unwillingly she lets Don Pilar, La chorreadas stepfather know the location. He then steals the money before the eyes of Pepes wheelchair bound mother referred to as La Paralitica the paraplegic one. When Pepe learns of the missing money he becomes upset with Chachita. Later, their friends are sent to jail because they rob some food. Pepe begins to work for Doa Merenciana in order to earn some money to bail the out, but in the process he learns of a mysterious man called Ledo who robs and kills Merenciana. Pepe El Toro finds the body and is accused by Montes, a rich man infatuated with Celia, for killing Merenciana and sends him to jail.Back at the neighborhood, Don Pilar begans to feel guilty over his actions, until he became crazy and brutally beats Pepes mother. Meanwhile, La Tisica tries to get closer to Chachita, who in turn rejects her attentions and became very ill. When Pepe learns that his mother went to the hospital he breaks out of jail so he can be able to say farewell to her. At the same time La Tisica is also dying as the doctors are trying to help her, but a desperate Chachita begins push off and reject all of La Tisica s attempts to endear to her until an angry Pepe tells Chachita that La Tisica is her biological mother. As both women break in tears La Tisica dies, at the same time of La Paralitica, Pepe cries over her body and turns himself in to the authorities. ........

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