La odalisca No. 13

La odalisca No. 13
Directed byFernando Cortés
Written byFernando Cortés
Carlos Sampelayo
Produced byMiguel Zacarías
StarringMarco Antonio Campos «Viruta»
Gaspar Henaine «Capulina»
Germán Valdés «Tin-Tan»
María Antonieta Pons
Lorena Velázquez
Donna Behar
CinematographyAlex Phillips
Edited byJosé W. Bustos
Music byManuel Esperón
Production
company
Producciones Zacarías
Release date
  • 23 October 1958 (1958-10-23)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

La odalisca No. 13 ("Odalisque Number 13") is a 1958 Mexican comedy film, writed and directed by Fernando Cortés, and starring Viruta and Capulina, Germán Valdés «Tin-Tan», María Antonieta Pons, Lorena Velázquez and Donna Behar.[1]

The film was said to be "not only a very popular Mexican movie but also a complex parody that involved Mexico City's turn-of-the-century modernist fascination with odalisques".[2]

Reception

  1. ^ Wilt, David E. (2024-10-17). The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0430-5.
  2. ^ Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio (2024-05-31). I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-79273-6.