Criminal Brigade (1950 film)

Criminal Brigade (Spanish:Brigada criminal) is a 1950 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring José Suarez, Soledad Lence and Alfonso Estela. It is a film noir with large amounts of location shooting in Madrid.

Plot
Fernando Olmos, a recently graduated police officer, witnesses a bank robbery, although he cannot do anything to prevent it. His first job is to infiltrate a garage as a car washer to catch a thief, unaware that the owner of the establishment is also the head of the robbery gang.

The film ends with a shocking sequence: the fight against the robbers in a building under construction: the Francisco Franco Health Residence, now the Valle de Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona.

Cast

 * José Suarez as Fernando Olmos Sánchez
 * Soledad Lence as Celia Albéniz
 * Alfonso Estela as Óscar Román
 * Manuel Gas as Inspector Basilio Lérida
 * Barta Barri as Mario
 * Pedro Córdoba de Córdoba
 * Fernando Vallejo
 * Antonio S. Amaya as Eduardo
 * José Manuel Pinillos
 * Tomy Castels
 * Carlos Ronda as Correo
 * Matías Ferret
 * José Soler
 * Maruchi Fresno
 * Isabel de Castro
 * Carlos Otero
 * Mercedes Mozart