Get Your Sandwiches Here

Get Your Sandwiches Here
Directed byJuan Bustillo Oro
Written byJuan Bustillo Oro
Produced byJesús Grovas
StarringSara García
Meche Barba
Carlos Orellana
CinematographyDomingo Carrillo
Edited byGloria Schoemann
Music byManuel Esperón
Production
company
Distributed byCinematográfica Grovas
Release date
  • 12 October 1951 (1951-10-12)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Get Your Sandwiches Here (Spanish: Acá las tortas) is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Sara García, Meche Barba and Carlos Orellana.[1] [2] It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Javier Torres Torija.

Plot

An elderly couple that had worked all their life making a modest living out of selling "Tortas". Everything they had they gave to their three children so they could have a better future. Thanks to their sacrifice, two of them were able to study abroad and now because of the social status they had accomplished, were too ashamed of their parents and denied knowing them. The third child, had become an alcoholic and his whereabouts were unknown to his parents.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Egan & Long p.91
  2. ^ Noble p.51
  3. ^ Cinemexicano [dead link‍]

Bibliography

  • Egan, Linda & Long, Mary K. (ed.) Mexico Reading the United States. Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.
  • Noble, Andrea. Mexican National Cinema. Routledge, 2005.
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