Allá en el Rancho Grande
- Tito Guízar: José Francisco Ruelas
- René Cardona: Felipe
- Esther Fernández Cruz
- Lorenzo Barcelata: Martín
- Emma Roldán: Ángela
- Carlos López: Florentino
- Margarita Cortés: Eulalia
- Dolores Camarillo: Marcelina
Allá en el Rancho Grande is a drama by Mexican director Fernando de Fuentes from the year 1936., The film tells the story of a love triangle in which the owner and the foreman are in love with a farm in the same woman. The farm owner tries to bind to itself, while the woman, however, is in love with the foreman by money. The film is set in a rural setting and starts doing a Mexican-style images. This reference Mexico is also evident that not cowboys were shown in American westerns, but Mexican Charros. Furthermore, the film is characterized by a variety of musical interludes, of which sang the folk song Allá en el Rancho Grande has acquired Tito Guízar greatest notoriety. Allá en el Rancho Grande was the first Mexican film, which also had success abroad. He is one of the most successful and best-known films of de Fuentes and established the genre of Comedia ranchera.
Action
The action takes place on the hacienda in Rancho Grande in rural Mexico. José Francisco and Felipe are friends since childhood, as José Francisco after his parents had died, were drawn together with his sister Eulalia with her aunt Ángela there. Along with them came Cruz, another orphan, to the hacienda, which was the godson of José Francisco's mother. She is being treated by Ángela only as a servant, while her drunken husband very care about them and they accept it as a daughter. When Felipe is the owner of the farm, he makes José Francisco to his foreman, because he as his friend brings to him the most confidence. This is secretly in love with Cruz. After Ángela auffällz that Felipe is in love with Cruz and turn this into José Francisco, there is a series of misunderstandings, which represents the friendship between the two main characters to the test. The film ends in a happy ending, in which the situation for all three dissolves happy.
Background
The film Allá en el Rancho Grande published Fernando de Fuentes in succession his revolution trilogy in which he had Vámonos con Pancho Villa, El compadre Mendoza and El trece prisionero published. These films were not very successful, despite their high artistic standards with the public. Vámonos con Pancho Villa in 1935 even became a financial fiasco, so the state had to step in with financing. The in Allá en el Rancho Grande told story about a love triangle was not entirely new for the Mexican film, but was in the written by Antonio Guzmán Aguilera and Luz Guzmán de Arellano story that has been implemented by Guzmán Aguillera and de Fuentes as a screenwriter, particularly humorous adapted. In Allá en el Rancho Grande de Fuentes is moved while on the Hollywood Western, caught in his film but typical Mexican images and moods. In addition, he did not copy the American Cowboy, but was referring to the Mexican Charros. He wore the differences between cowboy and Charro bill, held the entirely different role. The American cowboy was more connected with the conquest of the West, his own independence and the defense of the right during the Charro was locates in a hierarchical society and strongly corresponded to the role of a macho image. With this reference to Mexico Fernando de Fuentes pointed to other Mexican filmmakers the way to emancipate themselves from the adaptations of foreign films and threads and rotate original Mexican films. He based this film also the genre Comedia ranchera, in which many more films to follow on this topic. The following year, were treated over half of the 37 filmed in Mexico Movies stories with local and rural reference.
Allá en el Rancho Grande was Fernando de Fuentes 's most successful film and also the first internationally successful film from Mexico. It was the most popular film of this director and marked a turning point in the orientation of the Mexican film industry. De Fuentes but could not build on the quality of his earlier works in the series. For lead actor Tito Guízar the film was the breakthrough and he was also known in the United States.