If You Came Back to Me

1954 Mexican film
  • 1 October 1954 (1954-10-01) (Mexico)
Running time
100 minutesCountryMexicoLanguageSpanish

If You Came Back to Me (Spanish: Si volvieras a mí) is a 1954 Mexican drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Libertad Lamarque, Silvia Pinal, Miguel Torruco and Maricruz Olivier.[1][2][3]

Plot

Alejandra (Libertad Lamarque) is married to doctor Pedro (Miguel Torruco) and they have a daughter, Eva (Maricruz Olivier). When Eva is a young woman, she travels with her mother to the capital to meet Pedro, where they discover that he has set up a luxury hospital alongside a partner, Lidia (Silvia Pinal). Alejandra realizes that Lidia has stolen her husband's love and is doing the same with her daughter, whom she tries to convince to kill her own mother.

Cast

  • Libertad Lamarque as Alejandra
  • Silvia Pinal as Lidia Kane
  • Miguel Torruco as Pedro Cuenca
  • Maricruz Olivier as Eva
  • Arturo Soto Rangel as Alejandra's Father
  • Manuel Dondé
  • Agata Rosenow
  • Eduardo Acuña
  • María Herrero
  • Guillermina Téllez Girón
  • Victorio Blanco (uncredited)
  • Fernando Casanova as Fabián Altamirano (uncredited)
  • Martha Mijares as Student (uncredited)
  • Juan Pulido as Doctor (uncredited)
  • Enedina Díaz de León as Old Woman (uncredited)

References

  1. ^ Gallego, Rolando; Dlugi, Catalina (2020). Mujeres, cámara, acción: Empoderamiento y feminismo en el cine argentino (in Spanish). Ediciones Continente. p. 37. ISBN 978-950-754-656-3.
  2. ^ León Frías, Isaac (2019). Más allá de las lágrimas: Espacios habitables en el cine clásico de México y Argentina (in Spanish). Fondo Editorial Universidad de Lima. p. 523. ISBN 978-9972-45-486-8.
  3. ^ Arnaud, Charlotte; Courtemanche, Philippe; Fernandes, Carla; Morsch Kihn, Eva (1999). Cinémas d'Amérique latine: 1999 (in Spanish). Presses Univ. du Mirail. p. 67. ISBN 2-85816-447-9.
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