Valente Quintero (film)
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| Directed by | Mario Hernández |
| Produced by | Antonio Aguilar |
| Screenplay by | Mario Hernández Antonio Aguilar |
| Based on | "Valente Quintero" by Rosendo Monzón |
| Starring | Antonio Aguilar Saby Kamalich Narciso Busquets Sara García Eleazar García Cornelio Reyna |
| Narrated by | Eleazar García |
| Music by | Sergio Guerrero |
| Cinematography | Fernando Álvarez Colín |
| Edited by | Sergio Soto |
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| Distributed by | Producciones Águila |
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85 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $1,036,752 |
Valente Quintero is a 1973 Mexican historical drama film directed by Mario Hernández and starring Antonio Aguilar (who also co-wrote and produced the film) in the title role.Saby Kamalich, Narciso Busquets, Sara García, Eleazar García, and Cornelio Reyna also star. The supporting cast includes Enriqueta Jiménez and Alejandro Reyna, among others. Flor Silvestre appears in a special musical performance.
Valente Quintero was the second-highest grossing film of 1973 in Mexico City.
In the contemporary era (circa 1973), two foreign tourists make a stop at the provincial town of Perales. Two small memorials surrounded by pebbles in a corner of a street attract their attention. On the meantime, two elderly veterans of the Mexican Revolution, Chelelo and Cornelio, come out from a nearby building to receive them. They explain to the tourists about the memorials and to whom are they in memory of. Chelelo then recounts the story of two revolutionary friends, Sub-lieutenant Valente Quintero and Major Atanasio Pizarro, who are fighting a battle in one of Perales' residential streets. Valente is severely injured when he is shot in front of the late General Gumersindo Carrillo's house where his widow, doña Elvira Peña, his daughter, Leonor Carrillo, and their housemaid, Carmen, reside. Leonor witnesses when Valente is shot and is decided to go out and help him, against her mother's wishes. Leonor then tells her mother that she is returning a favor that could have been made to her father, who helplessly died while bleeding in the midst of a forest. Leonor therefore runs across the street to get the town's drunkard physician, Doctor Plácido. Elvira, Carmen, and Leonor carry Valente into the house and lay him in a bed. Valente stays ill in bed for several days and his friend Atanasio later receives word about his survival. Atanasio falls in love with the elegant and sophisticated Leonor and admires the conservative and sharp-tongued matron Elvira. Valente and Leonor also start a romantic relationship, which leads them to marriage. Atanasio, who is now a rich and alcoholic landowner, duels Valente for the love of Leonor on the night of their honeymoon. The conflict ends with both Valente and Atanasio being killed by one another.
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