Criminal Brigade (1950 film)

1950 Spanish film

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 (1950-12-04)

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

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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

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* 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

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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.

## Bibliography

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

## External links

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* Criminal Brigade at IMDb

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