Criminal Brigade (1950 film)

Criminal Brigade
Directed by	Ignacio F. Iquino
Written by	Manuel Bengoa Juan Lladó José Santugini
Produced by	Ignacio F. Iquino
Starring	José Suarez Soledad Lence Alfonso Estela
Cinematography	Pablo Ripoll
Edited by	Ramon Quadreny
Music by	Augusto Algueró
Production company	Producciones Iquino
Distributed by	Radio Films
Release date	4 December 1950 (1950-12-04)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Criminal Brigade (Spanish:Brigada criminal) is a 1950 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring José Suarez, Soledad Lence and Alfonso Estela. It is a film noir with large amounts of location shooting in Madrid.[1]

Plot

Fernando Olmos, a recently graduated police officer, witnesses a bank robbery, although he cannot do anything to prevent it. His first job is to infiltrate a garage as a car washer to catch a thief, unaware that the owner of the establishment is also the head of the robbery gang.

The film ends with a shocking sequence: the fight against the robbers in a building under construction: the Francisco Franco Health Residence, now the Valle de Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona.[2]

Cast

• José Suarez as Fernando Olmos Sánchez
• Soledad Lence as Celia Albéniz
• Alfonso Estela as Óscar Román
• Manuel Gas as Inspector Basilio Lérida
• Barta Barri as Mario
• Pedro Córdoba de Córdoba
• Fernando Vallejo
• Antonio S. Amaya as Eduardo
• José Manuel Pinillos
• Tomy Castels
• Carlos Ronda as Correo
• Matías Ferret
• José Soler
• Maruchi Fresno
• Isabel de Castro
• Carlos Otero
• Mercedes Mozart

References

1. Bentley p.109
2. Gelpí, Cristina (2008). "La lexicografía entre el catalán y el castellano (XVI-XIX) y su proyección en el Diccionari de Pere Labernia". Philologia Hispalensis (12): 165–187. doi:10.12795/ph.2008.v22.i01.05. ISSN 1132-0265.

Bibliography

• Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

External links

• Criminal Brigade at IMDb