Wild Flower (film)

Wild Flower
Wild Flower
Directed by	Emilio Fernández
Written by	Emilio Fernández; Mauricio Magdaleno
Produced by	Agustin J. Fink
Starring	Dolores del Río; Pedro Armendáriz; Miguel Ángel Ferriz; Fernando Soto LaMarina; Mimí Derba
Cinematography	Gabriel Figueroa
Edited by	Jorge Bustos
Music by	Francisco Domínguez
Distributed by	Films Mundiales
Release date	1943;
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.^[1] It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in silent and Hollywood's Golden Age films. It is the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).^[2]

Plot

In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.