Cuatro contra el mundo

Crime, Drama, Thriller · 1950

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.

Starring

Carlos Savage, Víctor Parra, Gustavo César Carrión, Leticia Palma, Agustín Martínez Solares, Alejandro Galindo, Tito Junco, Alejandro Galindo, José Pulido

Director

Alejandro Galindo

Producer

César Santos Galindo