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Fever Mounts at El Pao

Original title: La fièvre monte à El Pao
  • 1959
  • 1h 37m
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6.8/10
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Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
Drama

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship.... Read allAroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic r... Read allAroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents... Read all

  • Director
    • Luis Buñuel
  • Writers
    • Henri Castillou
    • Luis Buñuel
    • Luis Alcoriza
  • Stars
    • Gérard Philipe
    • María Félix
    • Jean Servais
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Luis Buñuel
    • Writers
      • Henri Castillou
      • Luis Buñuel
      • Luis Alcoriza
    • Stars
      • Gérard Philipe
      • María Félix
      • Jean Servais
    • 8User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Gérard Philipe
    Gérard Philipe
    • Ramón Vázquez
    María Félix
    María Félix
    • Inés Rojas
    • (as Maria Felix)
    Jean Servais
    Jean Servais
    • Alejandro Gual
    Miguel Ángel Ferriz
    Miguel Ángel Ferriz
    • Le gouverneur Mariano Vargas
    • (as M.A. Ferriz)
    Raúl Dantés
    • Le lieutenant García
    • (as Raoul Dantes)
    Domingo Soler
    Domingo Soler
    • Le professeur Juan Cárdenas
    Víctor Junco
    Víctor Junco
    • Indarte
    Roberto Cañedo
    Roberto Cañedo
    • Le colonel Olivares
    Andrés Soler
    Andrés Soler
    • Le président Carlos Barreiro
    Luis Aceves Castañeda
    Luis Aceves Castañeda
    • López - le secrétaire de Gual
    • (uncredited)
    Armando Acosta
    • Manuel
    • (uncredited)
    Miguel Arenas
    • Le vice-président Barreiro frère du président
    • (uncredited)
    Edmundo Barbero
    • Le procureur
    • (uncredited)
    Augusto Benedico
    Augusto Benedico
    • Le ministre Sáenz
    • (uncredited)
    Antonio Bravo
    • Le juge
    • (uncredited)
    José Chávez
    • Le chauffeur transportant Inès Rojàs
    • (uncredited)
    Emilio Garibay
      Francisco Jambrina
      Francisco Jambrina
        • Director
          • Luis Buñuel
        • Writers
          • Henri Castillou
          • Luis Buñuel
          • Luis Alcoriza
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        • Trivia
          In his memoirs, Buñuel claims to have plagiarized the plot of this film from Puccini's opera "Tosca".
        • Crazy credits
          Half of the credits are displayed at the beginning of the films: the first seven member of the cast, director, writers, director of photography, composer & conductor, production companies and, finally, executive producer. The closing credits display the other half (after the word "FIN"): Once again the cast list but this time the first eight actors; then the assistant director, script supervisor, unit manager, sound engineer, production manager, followed by the name of the dubbing facilities and laboratories.
        • Connections
          Referenced in Gérard Philipe: un homme pas un ange (2003)

        User reviews8

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        7/10
        Political Melodrama
        In the fictitious island of Ojeda, people lives a dictatorship and the island is a penal colony of forced labor with ordinary and political prisoners together. When the Governor Mariano Vargas (Miguel Ángel Ferriz) is murdered by a sniper, his idealistic secretary Ramón Vázquez (Gérard Philipe) is assigned director of security and in charge of the prison. Vázquez is in love with the widow Inés Rojas (Maria Felix) and they have a love affair. But when the new governor Alejandro Gual Miguel (Jean Servais) arrives in the island, he wants Inés to be his lover. Further he forces the killer to sign a false confession telling that Vázquez is the responsible for the attempt against the previous governor and blackmails Inés. But Inés is a female fatale that knows the political games and manipulations.

        "La fièvre monte à El Pao" is a political melodrama by Buñuel based on politics instead of his famous surrealism. The theme politics was adopted by Costa-Gravas years later and Glauber Rocha probably wrote his "Terra em Transe" inspired in this movie. Inés Rojas is a femme fatale but the plot is not a film-noir, only the story of an idealistic man that joins politics in a dictatorship and finds how difficult is keep his ideals. My vote is seven.

        Title (Brazil): "Os Ambiciosos" ("The Ambitious")
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        • Release date
          • December 5, 1959 (France)
        • Countries of origin
          • France
          • Mexico
        • Languages
          • French
          • Spanish
        • Also known as
          • Nestrpljenje raste u El Pasu
        • Filming locations
          • Tetecala, Morelos, Mexico(town)
        • Production companies
          • Le Groupe des Quatre
          • Cinematográfica Filmex S.A.
          • Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 37 minutes
        • Color
          • Black and White
        • Sound mix
          • Mono

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