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Yesterday's Boys Didn't Use Hair Fixers (1937)

Yesterday's Boys Didn't Use Hair Fixers poster
Original title
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Directed by
Manuel Romero
Genre
drama film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Argentine film follows a group of older men looking back at their youth. They contrast their own old fashioned ways with the younger generation's modern habits.

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What happens

The Boys of the Old Days Didn't Use Hair Gel (Spanish: Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina) is a 1937 Argentine historical drama film directed and written by Manuel Romero and starring Florencio Parravicini, Mecha Ortiz and Santiago Arrieta. It is one of the most representative films of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. There is another version of the same name directed in 1969 by Enrique Carreras with a cast headed by Rodolfo Bebán and Susana Campos. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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