Wild Flower (film)

Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in silent and Hollywood's Golden Age films. It is the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).

Plot
In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.

Cast

 * Dolores del Río .... Esperanza
 * Pedro Armendáriz .... José Luis Castro
 * Emilio Fernández .... Rogelio Torres
 * Miguel Ángel Ferriz .... don Francisco
 * Armando Soto La Marina "Chicote" .... Reynaldo
 * Agustín Isunza .... Nicanor
 * Eduardo Arozamena .... Melchor
 * Mimí Derba .... doña Clara
 * Margarita Cortés .... sister of José Luis
 * Manuel Dondé .... Úrsulo Torres
 * José Elías Moreno .... colonel Pánfilo Rodríguez, Esperanza
 * Lucha Reyes
 * Trío Calaveras
 * Pedro Galindo .... Pedro
 * Carlos Riquelme .... Cura
 * Tito Novaro .... son of Esperanza
 * Emilia Guiú .... an extra