Criminal Brigade (1950 film)

Criminal Brigade
Criminal Brigade
Directed by	Ignacio F. Iquino
Written by	Manuel Bengoa; Juan Lladó; José Santugini;
Produced by	Ignacio F. Iquino
Starring	José Suarez; Soledad Lence; Alfonso Estela;
Cinematography	Pablo Ripoll
Edited by	Ramon Quadreny
Music by	Augusto Algueró
Production; company	Producciones Iquino
Distributed by	Radio Films
Release date	4 December 1950;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Criminal Brigade (Spanish:Brigada criminal) is a 1950 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring José Suarez, Soledad Lence and Alfonso Estela. It is a film noir with large amounts of location shooting in Madrid.^[1]

Plot

Fernando Olmos, a recently graduated police officer, witnesses a bank robbery, although he cannot do anything to prevent it. His first job is to infiltrate a garage as a car washer to catch a thief, unaware that the owner of the establishment is also the head of the robbery gang.

The film ends with a shocking sequence: the fight against the robbers in a building under construction: the Francisco Franco Health Residence, now the Valle de Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona.^[2]

Cast

José Suarez as Fernando Olmos Sánchez
Soledad Lence as Celia Albéniz
Alfonso Estela as Óscar Román
Manuel Gas as Inspector Basilio Lérida
Barta Barri as Mario
Pedro Córdoba de Córdoba
Fernando Vallejo
Antonio S. Amaya as Eduardo
José Manuel Pinillos
Tomy Castels
Carlos Ronda as Correo
Matías Ferret
José Soler
Maruchi Fresno
Isabel de Castro
Carlos Otero
Mercedes Mozart

References

^ Bentley p.109
^ Gelpí, Cristina (2008). "La lexicografía entre el catalán y el castellano (XVI-XIX) y su proyección en el Diccionari de Pere Labernia". Philologia Hispalensis (12): 165–187. doi:10.12795/ph.2008.v22.i01.05. ISSN 1132-0265.

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

External links

Criminal Brigade at IMDb

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[1] Bentley p.109

[2] Gelpí, Cristina (2008). "La lexicografía entre el catalán y el castellano (XVI-XIX) y su proyección en el Diccionari de Pere Labernia". Philologia Hispalensis (12): 165–187. doi:10.12795/ph.2008.v22.i01.05. ISSN 1132-0265.

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