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El luchador fenómeno
Overview
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
Director and cast
- Fernando Cortés Director
- Adalberto Martínez as Amado Rodriguez Fernández
- Bárbara Gil as Martha
- Óscar Pulido as Don Ernesto
- Tito Junco as Danny López
- Joaquín García Vargas as Leo de Corrido
- Wolf Ruvinskis as El Diablo Negro
- Mario García 'Harapos' as Cerillo
- Nicolás Rodríguez as Secretario general del limbo
- Ángel Merino as Jugador futbol americano
- Julio Ahuet as El muerto
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