Overview
Adaptation from Enrique A. Laguerre's novel "La llamarada". It depicts the struggles of Puerto Rican peons in the sugar cane fields during the 1930's.
Director and cast
- Edmundo H. Rodríguez Director
- Ernesto Concepción Moreau as Juan Antonio Borrás
- Braulio Castillo Jr. as Segundo Marte
- Raúl Carbonell Jr. as El Jabao
- Junior Álvarez as Don Flor
- Cristina Sesto as Pepiña
- Francisco Capó as Lope
- Ulises Rodríguez as Manuel
- Ángela Meyer as Doña Adelaida
- Joealis Filippetti as Delmira Alzamora
- Efraín López Neris as Don Polo
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