Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)

• 71%
• 1950
• Drama
• Kriminalität
• Thriller
• Víctor Parra
• Leticia Palma
• Tito Junco

This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir ("blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster'a-moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Victor Parra.