De sangre chicana (1974)

Directed by

Joselito Rodríguez

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican father and his three children live near the US border and try to fit in with American ways. One of the children wrestles in secret as the masked luchador Huracán Ramírez.

nostalgicbittersweetspiritedgrittyfamily-drivenold-fashionedmelodramaticearnest

What happens

De sangre chicana (in English, "Of Chicano Blood") is a 1974 Mexican lucha libre crime drama film written and directed by Joselito Rodríguez, and starring Pepe Romay, José Chávez Trowe and Elizabeth Dupeyrón. The film concerns a father and his three children who live in the United States close to the Mexico–United States border, as they, who are Mexicans, try to adapt to local customs, while one of them wrestles as masked professional wrestler Huracán Ramírez. It is the final theatrical film in a series of films centered on the Huracán Ramírez character, which began with Huracán Ramírez (1952). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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