Friday, March 11, 2011

Yo... el aventurero (1959)

Yo... el aventurero is a 1959 Mexican film starring Antonio Aguilar and Rosa de Castilla. It was directed by Jaime Salvador, who was known for directing several "Viruta y Capulina" flicks. Co-stars include Pedro Infante's brother Ángel Infante, Michoacan-born singer Amalia Mendoza, and brothers Andrés and Domingo Soler.

The film was shot in "Mexiscope" a Mexican version of Cinemascope. Fading transitions and color quality made it successful in the box-office. The story is about womanizing skirt-chaser Antonio Ardabin, who returns to his uncle's hacienda to investigate some cattle robberies. Rosa de Castilla is Gloria Cisneros, who is forced to marry Ángel Infante's character of Gregorio Carriles, the thief of Antonio's uncle's cattle.

Amalia Mendoza stars as an eponymous bar singer who is infatuated with Antonio Ardabin, since a long time ago. This starring role proved outstanding in Mendoza's melodramatic acting, although it did not boost her starring roles, in which she stopped in cinema in 1961.

Paco Michel who wrote the song "Yo... el aventurero" has a special billing as Lencho one of Ardabin's sidekicks, the others being Joaquin Garcia Vargas as Nacho and Armando Soto La Marina as Nicho.

Dolores Tincoco has the role of Gloria's nana Petra, and Roberto Meyer as the nervous Ardabin-fearing comisario of the town.

The film is similar to Tan bueno el giro como el colorado which starred Luis Aguilar, Demetrio Gonzalez, Flor Silvestre, and Rosa de Castilla who was a contract player at Producciones Rosas Priego, also appearing in Dos corazones y un cielo the same year.