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...PEDRO INFANTE AND MEXICAN CINEMA...
...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
...Infante releases, a cover sticker reads: "Por PRIMERA VEZ EN DVD EN EE. UU.!" (For the first time ever on DVD in the U.S.!) That's the first hint that this collection is aimed primarily at those Mexican-Americans who already know Infante as a legend or a loving memory -though it's available at amazon.com and, I'm assured, at Blockbuster and other large stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen...
...half-breed beauty who has saved his life. (She is played by Blanca Estela Pavón, Infante's love interest in six of his late '40s, who died in a plane crash in 1949, at 23). "You dirty Indian," Silvia hisses. "What do you know about love?" The Mexican audience knew to hiss back...
...writes. "Some say he was killed in the plane crash. Some say the left side of his face was mutilated and that he now lives in hiding (age 87) in the Sierra Nevadas. Some say he was having an affair with the President of Mexico's mistress and the Mexican mafia was after him and he had to go into hiding. ... I just heard from a friend in El Paso that she knows someone with impeccable credentials who has testified for sure that Pedro did not die on that plane! And not only that, but her friend has lunch with...