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La Muerte en las calles

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La Muerte en las calles
Directed byLeo Fleider
Written byAbel Santa Cruz
Release date
  • 1952 (1952)
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

La Muerte en las calles (The Death in the Streets) is a 1952 Argentine war drama film set during the British Invasions of the River Plate of 1806-1807. The script, written by Abel Santa Cruz, is based upon a 1949 novel of the same name by Manuel Gálvez.[1]

Plot

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In Buenos Aires, during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, a British army officer is billeted in the house of a wealthy local family. The head of the family, a Spanish merchant, compells his daughter to marry the guest, believing they were engaged in a hidden romance.

Cast

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Notes

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  1. ^ "La muerte en las calles – cinenacional.com" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-03.
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