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El último cow-boy (1954)

El último cow-boy poster
Original title
El último cowboy
Directed by
Juan Sires
Genre
comedy film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An Argentine black and white comedy about a cowboy character. The film jokes with genre tropes in a playful way.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalbreezycomedicparodicnostalgic

What happens

El último cow-boy es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Juan Sires sobre el guion de Eric Della Valle y Miguel Petruccelli que se estrenó el 25 de febrero de 1954 y que tuvo como protagonistas a Augusto Codecá, Héctor Calcaño, Héctor Quintanilla y Pedro Laxalt. Inicialmente iba a llamarse El camino del Cow-boy buscando replicar en forma jocosa al Camino del gaucho -Way of a Gaucho- dirigido en Estados Unidos por Jacques Tourneur en 1952 y filmado en Argentina. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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