Untouched

(Sombra verde)
Roberto Gavaldón | Fiction, Drama, Romance, Adventure

1954 | 87 minutes | Mexico

A romance set in the jungle around Veracruz, where a scientist searches for barbasco roots. Lost in the interior, he meets a machete-wielding stranger and his beautiful daughter.

Synopsis

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A young Ricardo Montalbán, taking a break from his work at MGM, plays Federico, an engineer from the capital who is sent to the Veracruz mountains to look for barbasco roots, from which cortisone is obtained.

Pedro, an indigenous man from the region, guides him through the jungle, but they get lost. Pedro is bitten by a snake and dies, while Federico falls into a river and faints.

When he wakes up, he finds himself in with Yáscara, the daughter of Santos. Played by Mexico’s national scream queen Ariadna Welter, she falls in love with him.

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Main credits

Gavaldón, Roberto (film director)
Gavaldón, Roberto (screenwriter)
Alcoriza, Luis (screenwriter)
Calderon, Guillermo (film producer)
Calderón, Pedro (film producer)
Montalbán, Ricardo (actor)
Parra, Victor (actor)
Welter, Ariadne (actor)

Other credits

Cinematography, Alex Phillips; editing, Gloria Schoemann; music, Antonio Díaz Conde.


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Festivals

Ariel Award - Best Cinematography; San Sebastián International Film Festival; MOMA; Morelia International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón

NATIONALITY: Mexico

YEAR: 1954

GENRE: Fiction, Drama, Romance, Adventure

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Black and white

GRADE LEVEL: College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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