Word: montalban
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...Montalban, Ricardo • passing...
...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...
...Walked by Night, it's the heroes who reclaim the limelight in Border Incident, the first film Mann made for MGM after his very productive stint at Eagle-Lion. It's essentially a remake of T-Men: two agents go undercover in the underworld; one dies. Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) has come from Mexico to join U.S. Immigration official Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) with the intent - get this - of stanching the flow and exploitation of illegal farm workers coming up from Mexico. Pablo will pretend to be a bracero looking for a fast way into the country; Jack will cover...
...most interesting part is how the forensic medicine, thought of as so cutting edge at the time, has been so picked up by modern media. During most of the film, one could almost be watching a flashback episode of CSI: Boston. A detective (fine Cordoban leather purveyor Ricardo Montalban) joins forces with a forensic scientist to find out exactly what happened during femme fatale Jan Sterling’s final trip to Cape Cod. The trip that ended in murder. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Brattle Theatre. 16 Brattle Street...
...ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors, I'll go git it") larded with hick malapropisms--you know you're not supposed to like Little's mom because she calls Ricardo Montalban "Ricardo Moltenbomb." Pierre has a field day with the alienated apercus...