Los Tres Huastecos
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| Directed by | Ismael Rodríguez |
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Rogelio A. González Ismael Rodríguez |
| Music by | Raúl Lavista |
| Cinematography | Jorge Stahl Jr. |
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120 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Los tres huastecos ("The Three Huastecos") is a 1948 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez .
Raised separately in three villages in La Huasteca (a region in the northeastern Mexico), Lorenzo, from Tamaulipas, is an atheistic bronco; Juan de Dios, from San Luis Potosí, is a parish priest; while Víctor, from Veracruz, is a captain in the army. Their great physical resemblance is a source of conflict. Juan de Dios tries to solve the problems with his two brothers. Mexican superstar Pedro Infante played in three separate roles as each of these three individual triplets.
In the movie, the villain "El Coyote", whose identity was unknown, was killing and robbing the people in the village Lorenzo lives in. His brother Víctor was transferred to the village in order to catch "El Coyote." Víctor also had a romantic interest in a village girl, Maritoña (Blanca Estela Pavon), who flirts with him at a party while Veracruz song , "La Tuza" plays. But firmly rejects all his advances after the party. María Eugenia Llamas, who was only four at the time, made her screen debut in this movie as "La Tucita", a stage name she has used ever since. She played the daughter of the saloon owning and atheist triplet, Lorenzo.
In Tucita's first appearance in the movie, she has a snake and a tarantula as pets, both of which she handles with love. She also pushes around her otherwise hardened father shamelessly. For instance, she shoots at him with a pistol and misses. Then, she starts crying. Her father asks her if she is crying because she got scared. She responds tearfully that no, she is crying because she didn't kill him – which doesn't make him mad. In another scene, when she is in bed, she keeps pestering her father for one thing after another, to which he always complies, if visibly annoyed. Finally, she calls to him in the next room that she is thirsty and demands a glass of water. When he grudgingly brings it, she waters her plant with it instead of drinking it – which also makes him more frustrated, but not angry with her.
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