Santo contra el cerebro del mal AKA Santo vs. The Evil Brain [Mexico] [1958/TVRIP/XViD]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052159/
originally uploaded 2007-11-21 17:39:40 by rcrews1
The first “Santo” Film. Spanish language- soft fansubbed. A good quality DTV-rip. Thanks to the original unknown ripper! (This film was released in Mexico in 1961; most sources credit it as having been produced in 1958, but a newspaper in the film appears to bear a July 1959 date. - The Films of El Santo). I have more Santo films to upload if they are wanted.
This film–which is also known as Santo contra Cerebro del Mal–was the first in a long series of screen appearances for Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, “El Santo.” Santo allegedly turned down the opportunity to star in El Enmascarado de Plata in 1952 because he did not feel the film had much chance of success; six years later, he traveled to Cuba for his screen debut in this picture and Hombres Infernales, both directed by Joselito Rodríguez and featuring Joaquín Cordero and Fernando Osés, but otherwise primarily Cuban productions. A number of films were produced in Cuba from the 1930s through the end of the '50s, but most were co-productions with Mexico, or at the very least featured Spanish-speaking performers who were best-known for their Mexican films (such as 1953's Más Fuerte Que el Amor, which starred Spaniard Jorge Mistral and Czech import Miroslava). A number of Hollywood films were also shot in pre-Castro Cuba, including The Big Boodle (1957), featuring Errol Flynn and Pedro Armendáriz (with music by Raúl Lavista). Cerebro del Mal, shot almost entirely in actual locations (scenes were filmed at the “Biltmore” studios in Havana, but these appear to be limited to the set for Campos' lab and perhaps the interior of his house), contains some interesting scenes of late-'50s Havana (probably some of those same cars are still on the streets today!), but is technically rather crude.
Cerebro del Mal is a very unusual Santo film in many ways: in the first place, Santo is never called “Santo” in the picture at all! He is ONLY referred to as “El Enmascarado,” while the other masked wrestler (Fernando Osés–who has a brief dual role in the final scene) is called “El Incógnito” ONCE. Santo has practically no dialogue (in fact, the dialogue for all of the characters for the whole film would probably only take up about 3 typed pages), is given no “origin,” is not depicted as a professional wrestler (there are no arena bouts included), and is relatively incidental to the plot. Santo himself, looking uncharacteristically slim (compared to later films), appears rather awkward and ill-at-ease.” - The Films of El Santo
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